August 2020

You might use WhatsApp for everything from talking to family to messaging someone you met at a conference. But what if you want to send a...

Columnar formats, such as Apache Parquet, offer great compression savings and are much easier to scan, process, and analyze than other formats such as CSV. In...

The GMMK—short for “Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard,” because the Glorious PC Gaming Race manufacturer has heard of subtlety and doesn’t want anything to do with it—tries...

Smartphones are incredibly personal devices, and they can contain sensitive information. If you’re worried about prying eyes finding something they shouldn’t, you can hide and lock...

Coffee isn’t just a commodity trade or daily staple; it’s a delicious drink with a long, rich history, and a flavor profile as diverse as wine....

Static websites are easy to create and blazingly fast to use. If you learn to use Hugo, you can generate theme-based static websites on Linux. Creating...

Phone cameras are incredibly impressive nowadays, but there’s always more that could be done to expand their utility—especially on the software side of things. And while...

AWS has data centers located all over the world. To complicate their pricing further, each region has different prices for certain products. Which region is the...

We build homes out of bricks for lots of reasons. They’re resilient to high pressure and frost. They can withstand fluctuating temperatures without shrinking, expanding, or...