A Year in Reading: 2018
This is the 14th year that the Year in Reading series has run at The Millions. It’s the third year that I’ve blearily written the introduction...
Burger King explains its gibberish stunt, tweets at Pornhub
On Wednesday, a tweet went viral that was, perhaps, the purest form of Twitter imaginable. It was 240 characters of pure, uncut discourse, straight from the...
New ‘Valeroa’ Anti-Piracy System Cracked “In 20 Minutes”
With online piracy still running rampant, content producers are keen to prevent copying wherever they can. Music and movies are extremely vulnerable, with no effective technology...
The trendy five: Fall favorites from GitHub in November 2018
The days are certainly getting shorter and colder, but that just means we have more time to warm ourselves next to GitHub’s hottest repos. November was...
More containers means we need better system visibility
In ancient times when client/server or mainframe computing was the norm, it was easy to collect and analyze metrics from the systems. At the time, it...
“I hope to make CoolBeans more polished than NetBeans with native notifications and retina icons”
“CoolBeans is for everybody” JAXener: What is CoolBeans and how does it complement the NetBeans ecosystem? Emilian Bold: CoolBeans is an user-oriented IDE distribution based on...
Top 10 Java stories of November: On the road to Angular v8, Amazon Corretto & more
Honorable mentions: New and noteworthy Which technologies will dominate in 2019? 2019 is just around the corner so we’d like to find out which technologies will...
Announcing Google Play’s “Best of 2018”
As 2018 comes to a close, Google Play is sharing the year’s top content across apps, games, movies, TV and books. Whether you were watching “Black...
Geek Trivia: Which Slain Star Wars Villain Was Resurrected As A Cave Dwelling Spider?
Which Slain Star Wars Villain Was Resurrected As A Cave Dwelling Spider? Count Dooku Darth Maul Emperor Palpatine General Grievous Think you know the answer? Source...
A New Moral Imagination on Immigration
Our job is to tell the truth about immigration instead of cowering before falsehoods. As long as we accept the Trump administration’s rhetoric on immigration and...
