Sam Altman has a great short series on the development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI). Machine intelligence, Part 1 is on why machine intelligence is something that we should be afraid of while Part 2 is on what we should do about it. And then there’s Technology predictions, the perfect closer.
I have a guest post up at the official Italian MSDN Team Blog. It’s about the new Microsoft I met last Wednesday at the Azure Open Day in Milan.
Today must read is Nine Things to Expect from HTTP/2, brewed for us by one of the HTTP/2 core designers, Mark Nottingham. Ten well spent minutes of your time.
Eve 0.5.2 has just been released with a bunch of interesting fixes and documentation updates. See the changelog for details.
If you have time to read just one thing today, then make sure it is March To Triumph As A Mentor, an essay on Mentoring by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
this post is about an all-italian open source release, so it’s going to be in italian FatturaElettronicaPA è un nuovo progetto open source che ho rilasciato qualche giorno fa assieme alla mia azienda. Si tratta di una libreria C# che permette di leggere, scrivere e convalidare le Fatture Elettroniche aderenti alle specifiche del sistema di interscambio della Pubblica Amministrazione. ...
Tom Christie has some very good things to say on how to successfully maintain an open source project without losing sanity. Truth one: There are, and will always be, a non-finite number of possible valid issues to address. Your code can always be better polished, your APIs better defined, and your project more fully featured. Your documentation can always be better. The ecosystem within which your project lives is constantly evolving....
Flask-Sentinel is a OAuth2 Server implementation of the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant pattern described in Section 1.3.3 of RFC 6749. It is powered by Flask-Oauthlib, Redis and MongoDB and is bundled as a Flask extension so it can be used to add OAuth2 capabilities to an existing application. So what is the Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant pattern? According to the official RFC: The resource owner password credentials (i.e., username and password) can be used directly as an authorization grant to obtain an access token....
In spite of being a marketing spin and link bait, Heroku article on microservices does a pretty good job at explaining why microservices matter and, at a very high level, what challenges they pose. However, microservices aren’t a silver bullet, and they won’t make a sluggish IT organization fast. While individual services become more robust and less complex, the overall system takes on the many challenges of distributed systems at the network level....
I am not a big fan of top tens but 10 Tips for Better Pull Requests is well worth reading. A good Pull Request involves more than just some code. In most cases, there’s one or more reviewer(s) involved, who will have to review your Pull Request in order to evaluate whether it’s a good fit for inclusion in the code base. Not only must you produce good code, but you must also cater to the person(s) doing the review....