Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production
Spot-on points which Docker needs to address. It’s still production-ready, and _should_ be used there, it just has significant rough edges…
(tags: docker containers devops deployment releases linux ops)
How to Create RSS Feeds for Twitter
The latest hacky workaround to Twitter’s API shortcoming
(tags: rss-feeds feeds twitter favorites api social-media workaround google-script)
Testing without mocking in Scala
mocks are the sound of your code crying out, “please structure me differently!”
+1(tags: scala via:jessitron mocks mock-objects testing testability coding)
Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win
go NewEgg: ‘Newegg went against a company that claimed its patent covered SSL and RC4 encryption, a common encryption system used by many retailers and websites. This particular patent troll has gone against over 100 other companies, and brought in $45 million in settlements before going after Newegg. We won.’
(tags: via:nelson ip law patent-trolls patents newegg crypto)
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A lovely eulogy for Nóirín Plunkett, from Rich Bowen. RIP Nóirín :(
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
beautiful visualisation of a decision tree
(tags: decision-trees dataviz via:nelson d3 ml machine-learning)