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https://www.redhat.com/architect/apis-soap-rest-graphql-grpc There are many strategies for data exchange. Here’s a primer on four essentials. An architecture is wishful thinking until we understand how information is transferred across systems. That means…
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on,…
https://slashdot.org/story/22/01/10/0222241/ask-slashdot-why-do-programmers-make-so-many-mistakes A technical question occurred to Slashdot reader OneHundredAndTen when filling out forms online. “Are the programmers responsible for them stupid, incompetent, lazy, or all rolled into one?” They provided…
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network I’m going to lead with the technical punch line, and then explain it: Yggdrasil Network is an opportunistic mesh that can be deployed privately or as part of a…
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/my-many-girlfriends In the long ago, wild-west days of the late 90s, there was an expectation that managers would put up with a certain degree of eccentricity from their software developers.…
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https://it.slashdot.org/story/22/01/01/2333225/year-2022-bug-breaks-email-delivery-for-microsoft-exchange-on-premise-servers Kalper (Slashdot reader #57,281) shares news from Bleeping Computer: Microsoft Exchange on-premise servers cannot deliver email starting on January 1st, 2022, due to a “Year 2022” bug in the…
https://twitter.com/hey_bernie/status/1474012623524044806 Non-fungible tokens – NFTs – what a buzzword. Let’s break it down. NFTs 101: glorified JPEGs worth $1,000,000s What are NFTs? The easiest explanation is that: Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)…
https://twitter.com/hey_bernie/status/1461353565557981200 Even if you’re hiding under a rock, I am sure you’d have heard of: • Blockchain• Bitcoins• Web 3.0• NFTs• DAOs, and all that jazz before right? So many…