Recently, I was reading this New York Times article about the current US cabinet being the least diverse regarding its members' race and gender since a »
Capitalism doesn't incorporate any notion of social responsibility. But people use it to foster a system of social irresponsibility. So why do humans, who are inherently »
I wish it had been earlier for me to get this advice: To Be a Better Listener, Embrace the Awkward Pause. Here's another related article that »
Software developers are currently discussing architectures based on Microservices vs. monolithic architectures. In part, it was Martin Fowler who triggered the discussion with his Monolith First »
The first ever .concat() web development conference was a blast! First of all, the organizers have been extremely thoughtful with making sure that everybody could feel »
A spot-on note about software design by Colin Percival: Assessing the security of software via the question "can we find any security flaws in it?" is »
That article on the phenomenon of bullshit jobs accurately describes the dynamics of our current economic system: The ruling class has figured out that a happy »
A German nazi-party requests the number of Jews living in a particular city, and a breakdown of those numbers by district. And this very data does »
One reason why people sometimes execute network services as superuser (i.e., root) is the fact that Linux, like most operating systems, doesn't allow non-privileged users »
Recently, I've switched from a full blown desktop environment (Ubuntu's Unity) to using just a window manager, namely xmonad. (Although I'm still keeping the standard Ubuntu »
In this post I explain how one can check whether a system account name and password combination is correct. Although the ways to do that on »
One good reason to tunnel SSH connections through Tor can be firewalls that block your traffic to the respective SSH destination port. As Tor is perfectly »
URLs – How do they work? »