A while back I stumbled across an excellent version control visualization tool called Gource and it’s sparked a minor obsession in “watching” developers do their thing from sort of a 10,000 foot view. Back in January I made a Gource video of the bitcon/bitcon repo on GitHub, though my local copy was quite out of [...]
Image by IvanWalsh.com What do you do when your database or network is exhibiting symptoms of illness? This might sound like a silly question, but it’s no different from how the human body works: just as we contract a virus or pick up a bacterial infection, a network is susceptible to computer viruses in the [...]
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Another quick note for my tiny handful of regular readers: my domain name has changed. All links to enmaku.wordpress.com will be redirected here for 12 months after which they will cease to work. Please update your bookmarks and RSS readers. I knew I wasn’t going to stay at wordpress.com long, what with the total inability [...]
There’s this wonderfully adaptable word that everyone should be familiar with, yet many folks simply aren’t: Usury. Today usury refers to the practice of charging excessive (often illegal) interest rates on a loan, but that’s not always what it meant. Originally, it meant charging interest of any kind on a loan – an act that [...]
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