Category: Internet News

Nextcloud Hub platform is introduced for collaborative work

The Nextcloud project, a developing fork of the open-source cloud storage ownCloud, has introduced the new Nextcloud Hub platform, which provides a self-sufficient solution for organizing team collaboration among employees and teams working on various projects. In terms of functionality, Nextcloud Hub is similar to Google Docs and Microsoft 365, but it allows for the deployment of a fully controlled collaboration infrastructure that operates on its own servers and is not tied to external […]

Critical vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins with over 400,000 installations

Three popular plugins for the WordPress content management system, with over 400,000 installations, have revealed critical vulnerabilities: A vulnerability in the InfiniteWP Client plugin, which has over 300,000 active installations, allows unauthorized access as a site administrator. As the plugin is designed for centralized management of multiple sites on a server, an attacker can gain control of all […]

Let's solve some money issues.

Mentally detach yourself from the usual perspective on work — both yours and the company's. I invite you to consider the flow of money within the company. You, your neighbors, your boss — we all stand in the path of money. We are used to seeing money in the form of tasks. You might not think of them as money. If you are a programmer, then […]

Lytko unites

Some time ago, we introduced you to a smart thermostat. This article was initially intended to demonstrate its firmware and management system. However, to explain the logic behind the thermostat and what we have implemented, it is essential to outline the entire concept as a whole. Regarding automation, automation can be conditionally divided into three categories: Category 1 — individual “smart” devices. You […]

The beta release of the integrated suite of internet applications SeaMonkey 2.53

According to a tweet from an organization employee (Chris Hartjes), Mozilla has recently laid off 70 workers (out of a total of 1000), including all lead designers from Mozilla Quality Assurance, whose main responsibilities include testing new features and fixing bugs. In response, a hashtag #MozillaLifeboat was launched by the laid-off employees on Twitter, allowing them to share […]

The author of the web framework written in Rust actix-web deleted

Development of the SeaMonkey internet application suite has resumed, which integrates a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer into a single product (Chatzilla, DOM Inspector, and Lightning are no longer included). The first beta release of the new SeaMonkey 2.53 branch has been proposed for testing. The browser engine used in SeaMonkey has been updated to the status of Firefox 60 (previously […]

Copyleft licenses are gradually being displaced by permissive ones.

WhiteSource analyzed the licenses of 4 million open packages and 130 million code files across 200 different programming languages and concluded that the share of copyleft licenses is steadily decreasing. In 2012, 59% of all open projects were licensed under copyleft licenses such as GPL, LGPL, and AGPL, while the share of permissive licenses like MIT, Apache, and […]

What Made Lisp Special

"The greatest of all programming languages" — Alan Kay, "on Lisp" When McCarthy developed Lisp in the late 1950s, it was radically different from existing languages, the most notable of which was Fortran. Lisp embodied nine new ideas: 1. Conditional Statements (Conditionals). Conditional statements are the if-then-else construct. We now take them for granted. They were invented by McCarthy during […]

Five Questions about Programming Language Design

Guiding Philosophy 1. Programming Languages for People Programming languages are how people talk to computers. A computer is happy to converse in any language that is unambiguous. The reason we have high-level languages is that people cannot cope with machine language. The essence of programming languages is to prevent our poor fragile human […]

A Collection of 143 Translations of Paul Graham's Essays (from 184)

Paul Graham is one of the most respected figures among tech professionals, founders, and investors. He is a first-class programmer (having created two programming languages), a hacker, the founder of the bold accelerator Y Combinator, and a philosopher. With his thoughts and intellect, Paul Graham dives into a wide range of fields: from predicting the development of programming languages a hundred years into the future to human qualities and ways to fix/hack the economy. And […]

GNU Guile 3.0

On January 16, a major release of GNU Guile took place — an embedded implementation of the Scheme programming language with support for multithreading, asynchrony, network operations, and POSIX system calls, a binary C interface, PEG parsing, network REPL, XML; it has its own object-oriented programming system. The main feature of the new version is full support for JIT compilation, which has allowed for an average speedup in program execution by two […]

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