Programming

A major problem that young researchers face is their inability to write good research papers. This document serves as a guideline on how to write a good technical paper. It contains ideas that have been gained through experience; skilled authors will find themselves familiar with these ideas. The document is formated and structured like a typical journal publication. Each section describes what you should discuss in it.

The Travelling Salesman Challenge at Kiwi.com has ended which means it’s a great time to look back and summarise the event.

Werner Koch's code powers the email encryption programs around the world. If only somebody would pay him for the work.

The workflows and technologies required for modern web development are undergoing dramatic reinvention. Netlify has seen the transformation first hand. They’ve engineered a new platform for the web where content and applications are created directly on a global network, bypassing the need to ever setup or manage servers.

This is an unpolished draft of the second edition of ebook about Networking.

> At Heroku, we’ve come up with a methodology called the 12 factor app. It’s a set of principles designed to make great web applications that are easy to maintain. In that spirit, here are 12 CLI factors to keep in mind when building your next CLI application. Following these principles will offer CLI UX that users will love.

Fruitfly malware author used port scanning with weak or no passwords to identify potential victims.

Today fast.ai is releasing v1 of a new free open source library for deep learning, called fastai. The library sits on top of PyTorch v1 (released today in preview), and provides a single consistent API to the most important deep learning applications and data types. fast.ai’s recent research breakthroughs are embedded in the software, resulting in significantly improved accuracy and speed over other deep learning libraries, whilst requiring dramatically less code.

Gallery of generative art with code snippets at observablehq.com

Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.

Triangle is a tool to create image arts using the delaunay triangulation technique. It takes an image as input and it converts to abstract image composed of tiles of triangles.

Cache Craftiness for Fast Multicore Key-Value Storage

Every byte of a TLS connection explained and reproduced.

Fly.io just rolled out Power of 2 Random Choices Load Balancing; every site sending traffic through Fly receives global HTTPS load balancing. How does it help? What's special about it?

The answer is a fun journey down the operating system and back up again. And this isn’t just an academic issue – it has real world implications for how you design software.

A few day after making the latest version of Windows 10 available to users, Microsoft has suspended the update, citing multiple reports of user data loss.

In the workplace, spreadsheet experts face a constant barrage of help requests; ‘run the other way’

Microsoft is opening up some of the game's code.