Monthly Archives: September 2015

Dropbox open-sources Zulip, its group chat client/…

Posted on September 26, 2015 by richard

Dropbox open-sources Zulip, its group chat client/server system “optimised for software development teams”. blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2015/09/o…

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An HTML5 version of the StarCraft game. https://t….

Posted on September 26, 2015 by richard

An HTML5 version of the StarCraft game. github.com/gloomyson/Star…

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The s/ware stack & monitoring a startup with j…

Posted on September 26, 2015 by richard

The s/ware stack & monitoring a startup with just 3x Engineers used to scale their API to 2 million requests / day. stackshare.io/clearbit/scali…

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VR Minecraft release timetabled for 2016. http://t…

Posted on September 24, 2015 by richard

VR Minecraft release timetabled for 2016. arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/09…

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The $9 CHIP computer is shipping. http://t.co/osoo…

Posted on September 24, 2015 by richard

The $9 CHIP computer is shipping. makezine.com/2015/09/24/the… 1GHz R8 ARM processor with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of NAND storage, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth.

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Oculus is making a cheaper version of the Samsung…

Posted on September 24, 2015 by richard

Oculus is making a cheaper version of the Samsung Gear VR headset, available in November. techcrunch.com/2015/09/24/gea…

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Scylla DB – a drop-in replacement for Cassandra wi…

Posted on September 22, 2015 by richard

Scylla DB – a drop-in replacement for Cassandra with 6-10x the performance! scylladb.com #NoSQL

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Backblaze announces its B2 product & that they…

Posted on September 22, 2015 by richard

Backblaze announces its B2 product & that they’re a fully fledged Cloud Storage Provider. backblaze.com/blog/b2-cloud-…

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Good info on the latest Linux kernel’s tracing cap…

Posted on September 22, 2015 by richard

Good info on the latest Linux kernel’s tracing capabilities (bcc/eBPF etc). brendangregg.com/blog/2015-09-2…

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Google’s Project Zero is finding nasty bugs in Kas…

Posted on September 22, 2015 by richard

Google’s Project Zero is finding nasty bugs in Kaspersky Anti-Virus. googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/kasper…

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