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Developing for Debugging · Dave Pacheco's Blog

The Oxide control plane operates two different DNS services: external DNS, exposed to our customers, provides names for locating the system’s externally-facing API and web console; internal DNS only operates on the system’s internal network and provides...

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Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub

I'll be radically honest here - I never really got the idea of "Test Driven Development". I'm much more of a "telnet into production and damn the consequences" kind of guy. Look, it's much more fun and my cardiologist recommends severe shocks every now and...

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There's never been a better time to go into math

Sharing a few thoughts on the future of mathThese videos are funded directly by viewers: https://3b1b.co/supportAn equally valuable form of support is to sim...

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The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed

We now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48() seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.

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Introducing GNOME OS Preview

TL;DR: We're launching a new edition called "GNOME OS Preview", which is built from the latest stable GNOME release. This means that GNOME OS is no longer just a nightly OS for GNOME developers and testers!