Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 "simply because it was so easy to implement", says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it "my billion-dollar mistake".

If you use Git, it's time to update it. Like, now.

Vim’s regular line numbers number lines absolutely, relative numbers are relative to the current line and “hybrid” numbers combine both. With the vim-numbertoggle plugin, it can even toggle modes automatically.

Specialized hardware that trains in-memory is both fast and energy-efficient.

Technique caused security apps to falsely show untrusted apps were signed by Apple.

The Maybe type is a popular abstraction for defining values that may or may not exist. Why should you use it in JavaScript?

Malware can read, intercept, or tamper with the traffic of any HTTPS-protected site.

The file type used by Windows 10’s settings page can be used to trick Windows into running files it’s supposed to block.

While serverless computing isn’t new, it has reached an interesting place in its development. As developers begin to see the value of serverless architecture, a whole new startup ecosystem could begin to develop around it. Serverless isn’t exactly serverless…

When you’re a company the size of Facebook with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big deal.…

Making sure columns contain what they ought

You can find an ad-free static site version of this post here: This is Part 4 of a series about GPU synchronization and preemption. You can find the other articles here: Part 1 – What’s…