Greetings! Today I'm happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation. Over the past year or so, we've been working on "Arti", a project to rewrite Tor in Rust. Thanks to funding from Zcash Open Major Grants (ZOMG), we can finally put the Arti project up…

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A few months ago, I made WeWatch,
a mobile app to help you find what films to watch.
I made the decision to use MongoDB because of the popularity
of the MERN stack.

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In software engineering, we’re often faced with trade-offs that sacrifice what is best for the long term against something that increases velocity in the short term. A commonly used financial analogy is describing this as taking on technical debt.
I will…

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I've developed software for over 21 years now, which is way over half of my lifetime. Here are some of the most valuable lessons I learned along the way.

I'm sure this has been done before, but here is my take on a program that converts images and webcam video into ASCII representations. It uses Python and the libraries: OpenCV, Pillow, and Numpy. If you want to try it out for yourself, I left a GitHub repo…

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AI Copilot is pitched as a helpful aid to programmers. But some developers object to the blind copying of blocks of code used to train the algorithm.