Leading today is the continuing saga on Krebs on Security about the skimmers in Mexico. It really is an interesting read and shows how easy it is to compromise ATMs. In another security story, arstechnica reports on a set of Cisco routers infected by a stealthy backdoor. Lastly, we have The Awl talking about ad… Read More Geek Reading September 16, 2015
Today we start with some good security articles. First, Reuters reports on US researchers showing how computers can be hijacked to send data using sound waves. Outside of the security implications, this is really cool stuff. The BBC has a good article on some spyware demo that shows how spooks hack mobile phones. This is… Read More Geek Reading August 6, 2015
Today we start with a story from VentureBeat where they report on research finding a vulnerability in 95% of Android devices. At this point, we have not heard anything about this being exploited in the wild, so we should be safe for now. Tomasz Nurkiewicz talks about RESTful services being “harmful”. The basic idea is… Read More Geek Reading July 28, 2015
We have another good mix of articles for today. Edmund Kirwan talks about structural simplicity. This is important as it helps with understanding and maintenance of your codebase. Mozilla Hacks continues their series of articles on ES6, with this one about Collections. On Flowing Data, there is a cool visualization hack using Microsoft Excel to… Read More Geek Reading June 23, 2015
Today we have more job and process related goodness. First, Allan Kelly talks about the difference between scarcity and slack, particularly in the real of agile planning. It is definitely an interesting idea and one that I will be looking into. On Job Tips For Geeks, Dave Fecak talks about how engineers get found (or… Read More Geek Reading June 17, 2015
Today we start with some startup related information. At Mattermark, they discuss the important financial indicators for startups at every stage of growth. It is an excellent read that every startup should take a look at. On First Round Review, they talk about “Leslie’s Law’ and when small companies meet large ones and how small… Read More Geek Reading June 15, 2015
Leading off our Monday morning is a description of MoMA’s digital art vault. It is interesting to see how technology is used outside of our core industry. Variance Explained talks about the journey programmers must take in writing a million lines of bad code. The Chromium blog gives us an update on Google’s experimental protocol… Read More Geek Reading April 20, 2015
Mozilla brings us a cool memory scanner to improve server security. Anything that can make security easier is a top story. Another person that you should always read when he writes is AJ Kohn. On his blog, Blind Five Year Old, he talks about aggregating intent. Granted, his posts are billed as SEO most of… Read More Geek Reading March 16, 2015
One of the more interesting articles from this weekend is the announcement of Ecuador rolling out its own digital currency. I am definitely curious to see how this evolves. Julia Evans describes her understanding of A/A testing for machine learning. Soroush Pour explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism in Go using Monte Carlo simulations… Read More Geek Reading February 9, 2015
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