Yesterday Dyn, a DNS-provider, went down after a massive DDoS. That led to many popular websites being inaccessible, including twitter, LinkedIn, eBay and others. The internet seemed to be “crawlingContinue reading
I’ll begin this post with a rant about the state of scientific publishing, then review the technology “disruption” landscape and offer a partial improvement that I developed (source). Scientific publishingContinue reading
“The decline of Stackoverflow” is now trending on reddit, and I started this post as a comment in the thread, but it got too long. I’m in the 0.01% (whichContinue reading
When we are building web applications these days, it is considered a best practice to expose all our functionality as a RESTful API and then consume it ourselves. This usuallyContinue reading
You’ve probably heard about “the right to be forgotten” according to which Google has to delete search results about you, if you ask them to. According to a new GeneralContinue reading
I don’t like Scala. And I think it has some bad and very ugly aspects that make it a poor choice for mainstream development. But recently I still introduced itContinue reading
Biometric identification is getting more common – borders, phones, doors. But I argue that it is not by itself a good approach. I tried to explain this in a shortContinue reading
In the past year I’ve taken the position of an adviser in the cabinet of a deputy prime minister and as a result of that I had the option toContinue reading
There are many ways to work with git. The workflows vary depending on the size of the team, organization, and on the way of working – is it distributed, isContinue reading
After working for a year on the matter, I did a presentation on a small conference about the options for architecture of e-government solutions. A 40 minute talk could notContinue reading