27oct2013
- Who Does That Server Really Serve?
- Essay by Richard Stallman on services as software substitutes and
how they can take away your freedom.
- The Dead Drops Manifesto
- Dead Drops is an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file sharing
network in public spaces. This started as a media art project in NYC
in 2010. The quintessential art as
experience.
- Silk Road Founder Arrested
- The US FBI seized 144,000 bitcoins after the arrest. Bitcoin is now
trading about 35% higher than before his arrest.
- Sovereign
- A set of Ansible playbooks to build and maintain a private cloud.
It’s a neat concept for documenting a configuration setup. Portions
of it are based on this
post
describing how to set up a modern email stack.
- Why Microsoft Word Must Die
- Interesting bit of history on why MS Word evolved the way it did. I
still favor (La)TeX despite the steep learning curve. Nothing else I
know will scale and stay professional.
- Giving Testers Less to do
- Echos the test stategy I like: most automated testing done by the
development team and only light automated testing done by the test
team. Let the test team focus on creative, deeper testing that may
only be partially automated.
- On the Exploitation of APIs
- Interesting take on the definition and evolution of system APIs.
