We still have a strategy that we adhere to — for the second consecutive year, we finish at the top among companies. There isn't any specific recipe or secret ingredient; it's daily work that delivers results. Just like in the gym, when you don't slack off. Below, we analyze the blog activity over the past 4 years. All calculations in this publication are based on […]
Welcome everyone to my ‘survival’ under Windows Server without a file explorer. Today, I will test regular programs for this unusual Windows. I will start from the beginning. When the computer powers on, the standard Windows loading screen appears, but after loading, the desktop does not open; instead, the command line comes up and nothing more. Uploading files from the internet via the command line since there are no other ways to load files after […]
The release of the HAL 2.0 (Hardware Analyzer) project has been published, developing an integrated environment for analyzing connection lists (netlists) of digital electronic circuits. The system is being developed by several German universities, coded in C++, Qt, and Python, and distributed under the MIT license. HAL allows you to view and analyze schematics in a GUI and manipulate them using scripts in Python. In the scripts, you can […]
Daniel Robbins announced that after March 1, 2020, he will cease support and maintenance for release 1.3. Surprisingly, the reason for this is that the current release 1.4 has proven to be better and more stable than 1.3-LTS. Therefore, Daniel recommends those using version 1.3 to plan an upgrade to 1.4. In addition, a second maintenance release is expected in January for […]
I write a lot of texts, mostly nonsense, but usually even critics say that my writing is easy to read. If you want to make your texts (letters, for example) easier to read, hurry up here. I didn’t make this up; it's all from the book 'The Living and the Dead Word' by Nora Gal, a Soviet translator, editor, and critic. There are two rules: use verbs and avoid bureaucratic language. Verbs are […]
Indie developers often find themselves juggling multiple roles: game designer, programmer, composer, artist. And when it comes to visuals, many opt for pixel art — which seems simple at first glance. However, creating beautiful pixel art requires a lot of experience and specific skills. I found a tutorial for those just starting to grasp the basics of this style: it includes descriptions of special software and drawing techniques […]
It so happened that at the time the task was set, I did not have enough experience to develop and launch this solution on my own. So, I started googling. I don’t know what the catch is, but time and again, I find that even if I follow everything step-by-step as in the tutorial, preparing the same environment as […]
When developing plugins for CAD applications (in my case, this includes AutoCAD, Revit, and Renga), one issue inevitably arises over time – new versions of the software are released, their APIs change, and new versions of the plugins need to be created. If you only have one plugin or you are still a novice self-taught developer, you can simply make a copy of the project, modify it […]
In 2014, a rural school on the outskirts of Campo Maior in Brazil was connected to the internet. An ordinary event, if not for one 'but.' The connection was made via a stratospheric air balloon. This event marked the first success of the ambitious Project Loon, a subsidiary of Alphabet. Five years later, governments of countries affected by severe hurricanes and earthquakes are turning to […]
After six months of development, the release of Firejail 0.9.62 is now available, which develops a system for isolating the execution of graphical, console, and server applications. Using Firejail minimizes the risk of compromising the main system when running untrusted or potentially vulnerable programs. The program is written in C, distributed under the GPLv2 license, and can run on any Linux distribution […]
The Linux kernel source code contains about 4,000 comments describing unfinished tasks, plans, and postponed future work, identified by the presence of the phrase 'TODO'. Most of the 'TODO' comments are found in driver code (2,380). There are 23 in the cryptographic subsystem, 43 in architecture-specific x86 code, 73 in ARM code, and in […]
Hello everyone. Below is the transcript of the report from Big Monitoring Meetup 4. Prometheus is a monitoring system for various systems and services, allowing system administrators to collect information about current system parameters and set up alerts to receive notifications about deviations in system performance. The report will compare Thanos and VictoriaMetrics — projects for long-term storage of metrics […]