It usually happens on the last Friday of every month, but this time it's on the last Tuesday of the year. But the essence will not change - under the cut there will be a list of changes on Habré for the month, as well as a proposal to ask questions to the Habr team. But since there will traditionally be few questions (and our team has already dispersed a little), I […]
We have already talked about the surprises that vinyl records contain. It was 1901 vinyl, Pink Floyd and The B-52's, small programs and even optical experiments. We liked your response in the comments and we decided to expand the topic. Let's look at both vinyl and other formats - and talk about new "Easter eggs" hidden […]
The Habr team is almost at full strength We can only guess how everything looked from the outside, but from the inside, Habr 2019 seemed damn busy. We slightly changed the approach here and there, and all together these little things made the project more open and friendly. We “unscrewed the nuts” - now you can repost on Habr from personal blogs, and […]
There are quite a lot of reviews and videos on the Internet about building smart homes. There is an opinion that all this is quite expensive and troublesome to organize, that is, in general, the lot of geeks. But progress does not stand still. Devices are becoming cheaper, more functional, and design and installation are quite simple. However, most of the reviews focus on […]
Dear users and users, Anonymous and Anonymous! We congratulate you on the upcoming 2020, wish you freedom, success, love and all kinds of happiness! This year marks 30 years of the World Wide Web, 28 years of the Linux kernel, 25 years of the .RU zone and 21 years of our favorite site. All in all, 2019 has been a mixed year. Yes, KDE, Gnome and […]
We still have a tactic that we adhere to - for the second time in a row we finish the year in first place among companies. There is no recipe or secret ingredient here - there is daily work that gives results. Like in the gym when you're not hacking. Under the cut - we analyze the blog activity over the past 4 years. All calculations in this publication are based on […]
On the eve of the New Year 2020, the sK1 Project team managed to finally prepare the release of the Color Picker 1.0 palette editor. The main functions of the application are color picking with an eyedropper (with a magnifying glass function; optional) of any pixel on the screen, which allows you to get the exact color value from a particular pixel to create your own palettes, as well as the ability to import / export palette files in free (Inkscape, GIMP, [... ]
The release of the multi-purpose DBMS ArangoDB 3.6 has been published, providing flexible models for storing documents, graphs and data in key-value format. Working with the database is carried out through the SQL-like query language AQL or through special extensions in the JavaScript language. Data storage methods comply with ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) requirements, support transactions, and provide both horizontal and vertical scalability. DBMS management […]
A new free ProtonVPN client for Linux has been released. The new version 2.0 has been rewritten from scratch in Python. Not that the old bash-script client was bad. On the contrary, all the main metrics were there, and even a working kill-switch. But the new client works better, faster and much more stable, and has many new features. Key features in the new […]
Co-founder of the publishing house Panic Inc. Cabel Sasser announced through his microblog that sales of the humorous goose simulator Untitled Goose Game from the House House studio have reached 1 million copies. “It sounds incredible, but last week, three months after its release, Untitled Goose Game surpassed 1 million copies sold. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for [...]
The director of last year’s God of War, Cory Barlog, announced on his microblog that he was going to attend the international electronics exhibition CES 2020. “I’m going to go to my first CES, which will be held in a little more than a week. I hope to see a lot of robots,” Barlog outlined his expectations for the future trip. It is noteworthy that the other day about plans for [...]
An error by an employee of Wyze, a manufacturer of smart security cameras and other smart home devices, led to a leak of his clients’ data stored on the company’s server. The data leak was first discovered by cybersecurity company Twelve Security, which reported on December 26. In its blog, Twelve Security said that the server stored information about both users and […]
