Another slow news day yesterday, so we have a continued focus on development. First, on NOUPE they talk about the Google Resizer tool which shows you how your site responds to different sized devices. It is not a perfect tool, so depending on how you developed for mobile, you might not be getting the right… Read More Geek Reading March 4, 2016 #1056
Google leads the day with their post about protecting the world’s news from digital attack. It is good to see that there is some free tooling to help protect some sites. There is a good article from Programmable Web about providing SDKs if you offer an API. This is true not just for our favorite… Read More Geek Reading February 26, 2016 #1051
It was a slower news day, so today we will focus on some trends. First, there has been a lot of discussion about the JavaScript ecosystem and the proliferation of libraries. At shruubi, they talk about JavaScript fatigue, or more importantly, the exhausting rate of change of the “best practices” for various libraries. On The… Read More Geek Reading February 2, 2016 #1033
Leading the day is a post on ReadThink by the HubSpot CEO. It is an excellent look at how to manage things when dealing with the switch between pure startup and scaling a business. Tom Blomfield gives us a slightly humorous look at when to join a startup. Its’ target may be humor but there… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2016
TechCrunch leads the day with a very cool article about biometric tattoos. Disappointingly, the first applications sound like they will be military in nature, but the idea could lead to some really interesting ideas. Yanir Seroussi has a very good post on the hardest parts of data science. Like many other posts I have shared,… Read More Geek Reading November 25, 2015
Google leads the day with the open sourcing of TensorFlow, their machine learning library. Following on the intelligence thread, WildML gives us an excellent explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks for NLP. Alex H Woods completes the idea with a nice post on Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes. While applications of Bayes Theorem may not seem… Read More Geek Reading November 10, 2015
Two completely unrelated stories lead our day. First, TechCrunch reports on the new keyboard that LG made for mobile devices. That doesn’t sound interesting until you hear that it rolls up into a stick. If it is as good as it looks, I will be getting one. The Washington Post talks about the trading anomalies… Read More Geek Reading August 28, 2015
Today we have a few good security related stories. First, arstechnica reports on a new attack on Tor that can deanonymize hidden services with “surprising accuracy”. Next, The Register talks about Pager Duty being hacked weeks ago and just coming clean about it. The Next Web reports on a DNS exploit that is already in… Read More Geek Reading August 4, 2015
Today, we start with a post from Brad Feld on Feld Thoughts. The story is actually an anonymous repost of one founder’s struggles with their startup. On All Things Distributed, we get a look “under the hood” of the EC2 Container Service. Google Cloud Platform announced the availability of the Application Default Credentials feature, mainly… Read More Geek Reading July 21, 2015
By now you have heard that Google Music is freely available for streaming as an ad-supported service. More options in this space are definitely a good thing. Seth Godin drops his usual genius on us with his post on the tragedy of small expectations. Microsoft continues their love-in with Docker as they announce more cross… Read More Geek Reading June 25, 2015
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