One of the most thought provoking books I have read is Accelerando by Charles Stross. The ideas he has about the future of mankind and space travel are sure to influence the discourse around AI, post-humanism, and space exploration as technology–aided by the continued expansion of computing power–continues its relentless march forward. However, there was… Continue reading Corporations as an API
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Backing up files and databases to Amazon S3
Very few people learn the importance of backups before having a stomach churning loss of data at the most inopportune time (right before a presentation or the night before your thesis is due). Some, such as yours truly, need to have multiple hard drive failures before they learn their lesson. Luckily we are now where… Continue reading Backing up files and databases to Amazon S3
New dashboard widgets for Dashing
I just released my first three of hopefully many widgets for Dashing (the dashboard project released by Shopify). It is also my first time contributing to an open source project. Google Analytics Visitor Count: This is actually a fork of the original widget. I modified it so that I could view the data on multiple… Continue reading New dashboard widgets for Dashing