X.org Security Vulnerability: CVE-2018–14665
X Windows, and the popular fork X.org, is notorious for security issues and vulnerabilities. Most recently, a bug in X.org that has been…
Lightweight Docker images with Alpine
One of the challenges in building Docker images, is keeping it small and lean. For example, let’s take a simple app that prints a simple…
Building a service mesh with Istio
If you’re looking to build a modern microservices architecture that is highly scalable, observable, secure and resilient, it would make…
AlphaGo: a journey to machine intuition
When IBM’s Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov, I was fifteen years old. I didn’t know the significance of the event at the time, nor was I even…
Dissecting Bitcoin, Part 2 — Challenges
In the previous part, we discussed the core technology behind Bitcoin and the concepts that make it tick, namely:
How to put that GPU to good use with Python
Graphics chip manufacturers such as NVIDIA and AMD have been seeing a surge in sales of their graphics processors (GPUs) thanks mostly to…
Dissecting Bitcoin, Part 1 — The Technology
Recently, I decided to pull up Satoshi Nakamoto’s paper with the hope of getting a deeper appreciation for Bitcoin and the machinations of…
For the love of chess
Nearly twenty years to this day, in May 1997, a machine that IBM built challenged then world chess champion Garry Kasparov to a six game…
Machine learning for fun and profit
Machine learning and artificial intelligence has been going through a phase of democratization to the point that in recent years the…
Bootstrapping Go
Over the weekend, I came across a couple of videos on how the Go compiler was migrated from C to Go. The Go compiler was originally written…
Coaching software engineers 101
Software engineers are a breed apart and coaching them to bring out their best has almost been a passion for me. I’ve had the pleasure of…
Stop worrying, and just get things done
Two years ago, I pulled out my dusty copy of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” and decided to do a another skim through. Things were…