There seems to be a common theme the past two weeks, security tends to lead the day. First, VentureBeat reports on a Firefox glitch that can be exploited by malicious ads. TechCrunch tells us about a flaw in ZigBee Smart Home devices, which could make for some really interesting things to happen in your home. Coding Horror talks about the internet of compromised things.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Finding What To Learn Next | Simple Programmer
- What We Got Wrong About Self-Management | Buffer
- The 10x Developer Blueprint | Java Code Geeks
Design and Development
- Using React in the real world | Swizec Teller
- Thinking in Components | Hedley Smith
- Running V8 isolates in a multi-threaded ArangoDB database | ArangoDB
- Lifting Shadows off a Memory Allocation | Troydm’s Blog
- Production postmortem: Reading the errors | Ayende @ Rahien
- Python metaclasses | Ivan Smirnov
- A Stickler for Details: Implementing Sticky Input Field in iOS | Meiwin Fu
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Performance without the event loop | Dave Cheney
- Speeding up non-vectorizable code with Cython | Isaac Slavitt
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- INTERSECT – the Underestimated Two-Way IN Predicate | Java Code Geeks
- Understanding Interleaved Sort Keys in Amazon Redshift, Part 1 | Chartio
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Is there trouble brewing in the land of DevOps? | Bits or pieces?
- Distributing files via DNS | Frederic Cambus
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Firefox security glitch exploited by malicious ad that could steal users’ local files | VentureBeat
- Critical Flaw IDed In ZigBee Smart Home Devices | TechCrunch
- Welcome to The Internet of Compromised Things | Coding Horror
- Wait, what? TrueCrypt ‘decrypted’ by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin | The Register
- Why I’m releasing a brainwallet cracker at DEFCON 23 | Ryan Castellucci
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – August 7, 2015 (#2069) | Morning Dew
- Double Shot #1535 | A Fresh Cup
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