My team inherited a system that stores its data on a file system, constantly being saved to Git, acting as a single source of truth. Is it better or worse than a database? The short answer is, of course, “it depends on your use case”.

macOS system monitor in your menu bar. Contribute to exelban/stats development by creating an account on GitHub.

Posted in r/programming by u/Philpax • 115 points and 22 comments

Targets included GitHub, GitLab, HackerOne, and Cloudflare

Desktop environment in the browser

Kyoto University is one of the leading research institutions in Japan. However, recently, they lost most of their archives after a supercomputer system accidentally wiped 77 TB of data during a routine backup they still perform periodically. This incident…

Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modeled.

Many developers today have no idea what programming was like in the 80s.

Mentors should operate at three levels: goals, situations, and skills.

Google Chrome 97 is expected to be released later today. The new stable version of Google Chrome will be rolled out via the browser's automatic updating system starting today.

Bitburner is a programming-based incremental game. Write scripts in JavaScript to automate gameplay, learn skills, play minigames, solve puzzles, and more in this cyberpunk text-based incremental RPG.

Posted in r/programming by u/mooreds • 165 points and 36 comments

An integer overflow/underflow crash lets misbehaving apps lock users out of 911.

The restricted committee, the body of the CNIL responsible for issuing sanctions, has noted, following investigations, that the websites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com offer a button allowing the user to immediately accept cookies. However, they…

Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers' computers. Norton's parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the program and enables customers to profit…

'Mouseable' is intended to replace a mouse or trackpad. - wirekang/mouseable

Impact of JNDI bug mitigated by vulnerable behavior being disabled by default

Impact of JNDI bug mitigated by vulnerable behavior being disabled by default

On November 5, 2021 (a Friday of course), we've deployed innocent-looking gem updates. Minor versions of Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sentry client, Ruby Slack client, http libraries, Puma, Devise, OmniAuth Ruby client, Mongoid, and a few test gems.

However, something…

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