The Simpsons Writer Promotes Disney+ Premiere With Pirate Movie Screenshot
May21

The Simpsons Writer Promotes Disney+ Premiere With Pirate Movie Screenshot

In 2012, the short film ‘The Longest Daycare’ hit the big screen attached to screenings of the 20th Century Fox release Ice Age: Continental Drift. At just five minutes long it’s much shorter than a standard The Simpsons episode but, according to Al Jean who has worked on the show for more than 30 years, it was a “thank you” note to Simpsons fans who had stuck with the show for two-and-a-half decades. And...

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GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat’
May21

GitHub Reinstates Popcorn Time Code Despite MPA ‘Threat’

For more than half a decade, Popcorn Time has been a thorn in the side of Hollywood. The ‘Netflix for Pirates’ offers an easy-to-use application that opens the door to a library of thousands of streamable movies and TV-shows. The Motion Picture Asociation (MPA) recognized this threat early on and pressured the original developers to throw in the towel. That worked, but it came too late as the open-source project was...

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Use the internet from the command line with curl
May21

Use the internet from the command line with curl

Curl is commonly considered a non-interactive web browser. That means it’s able to pull information from the internet and display it in your terminal or save it to a file. This is literally what web browsers, such as Firefox or Chromium, do except they render the information by default, while curl downloads and displays raw information. In reality, the curl command does much more and has the ability to transfer data to or from a...

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Easy DNS configuration with PowerDNS for nameservers
May21

Easy DNS configuration with PowerDNS for nameservers

A few months ago, we got a requirement to provide a stable and reliable Domain Name System (DNS) server for a new project. The project dealt with auto-deployment using containers and where each new environment would generate a unique, random URL. After a lot of research on possible solutions, we decided to give PowerDNS (PDNS) a try. read...

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Is Agile compatible with open source development and communities?
May21

Is Agile compatible with open source development and communities?

I see this question popping up quite often in different conversations. Recently, we had a good discussion about it within my team. The main question was about how to communicate openly with the community, as well as have the space to build a team and work as a team. This can be challenging; for example, when a company or a sponsor pays a part of the contributors to work full time on a project. In this article, I will explain why...

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