According to 2019 statistics, data engineer is currently the profession whose demand is growing faster than all others. A data engineer plays a critical role in an organization - creating and maintaining pipelines and databases that are used to process, transform and store data. What skills do representatives of this profession need first of all? Is different […]
A year ago, I compared four pairs of TWS headphones and ended up choosing AirPods for convenience, although they do not produce the best sound. In November 2019, Apple updated them, or rather “forked” them, releasing AirPods Pro earplugs. And I, of course, tested them - I’ve been wearing them since the start of sales in Russia. To put it very briefly, the difference [...]
This essay grew out of conversations I had with several developers about the topic of bias against Java. This is not a criticism of Java, but rather a clear example of the “hacker radar”. Over time, hackers develop a nose for good—or bad—technology. I thought it might be interesting to try to outline the reasons why I find Java questionable. Some of those who read considered this [...]
There are two types of political moderation: conscious and voluntary. Proponents of conscious moderation are defectors who consciously choose their position between the extremes of the right and left. In turn, those whose views are arbitrarily moderate find themselves in the middle, since they consider each issue separately, and the extreme right or left views are equally wrong for them. You […]
In the process of learning English, many students forget that language is not only about rules and exercises. It is a huge ecosystem that is based on the daily culture and lifestyle of ordinary English-speaking people. The spoken English that many of us learn in courses or with a teacher is different from the actual spoken English spoken in Britain and the USA. AND […]
Mentally break away from your usual view of work – yours and the company’s. I encourage you to think about the path of money in a company. Me, you, your neighbors, your boss - we all stand in the way of money. We are used to seeing money in the form of tasks. You may not think of it as money. If you are a programmer, then [...]
Standard Notes, a cross-platform, encrypted, open-source note-taking app, is now available for download as a snap package. Standard Notes is available on all major desktop systems (Windows, Linux, Mac), as well as on smartphones and on the web. Main features: Create multiple notes. Ability to apply tags. Search and synchronize between different devices using […]
Some time ago we introduced you to a smart thermostat. This article was originally intended as a demonstration of its firmware and control system. But in order to explain the logic of the thermostat and what we implemented, it is necessary to outline the entire concept as a whole. About automation Conventionally, all automation can be divided into three categories: Category 1 - individual “smart” devices. You […]
The Nextcloud project, which is developing a fork of the free cloud storage ownCloud, has introduced a new platform, Nextcloud Hub, which provides a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration between enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. In terms of the tasks it solves, Nextcloud Hub is reminiscent of Google Docs and Microsoft 365, but allows you to deploy a fully controlled collaboration infrastructure that operates on its own servers and is not tied to external […]
According to a tweet from one of the organization's employees (Chris Hartjes), Mozilla recently laid off 70 employees (out of a total of 1000 people), including all the main designers of Mozilla Quality Assurance, whose main tasks are testing new features and fixing bugs. In response, laid-off employees launched the hashtag #MozillaLifeboat on Twitter, allowing them to […]
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in three popular plugins for the WordPress web content management system, with more than 400 thousand installations: A vulnerability in the InfiniteWP Client plugin, which has more than 300 thousand active installations, allows you to connect without authentication as a site administrator. Since the plugin is designed to unify the management of several sites on a server, an attacker can gain control of all […]
The author of actix-web, a web framework written in Rust, deleted the repository after he was criticized for “misusing” the Rust language. The actix-web framework, which has been downloaded more than 800 thousand times, allows you to embed HTTP server and client functionality into Rust applications, is designed to achieve maximum performance and leads in many tests […]
