Cyber Police Raid Advertising Agency For Working With Pirate Sites
There are some exceptions but most pirate sites exist due to their ability to make money. While breaking even is enough for some, many operate on a for-profit basis, generating revenue for their owners as any business might. In the majority of cases, funding comes from advertising and there is a considerable effort around the world to prevent brands from appearing on pirate sites, thus depriving them of revenue. In Ukraine, however,...
Top 10 open source tools for working from home
If you work from home, you know how important it is to have a great set of tools that stay out of your way and let you focus on what matters. The harder you work during work hours, the more easily you can relax once the workday is through. I’ve been working from home for years, and here are my top picks for the best tools open source has to offer the remote worker. Jitsi video conferencing read...
Share data between C and Python with this messaging library
I’ve had moments as a software engineer when I’m asked to do a task that sends shivers down my spine. One such moment was when I had to write an interface between some new hardware infrastructure that requires C and a cloud infrastructure, which is primarily Python. read...
Make advanced Git tasks simple with Lazygit
If there’s one word people use to describe Git, it’s “powerful.” Nobody can deny that Git is indeed a powerful beast, but after months of struggling to do embarrassingly basic things in it, I realized that mere mortals like me were never going to wield that power through a command-line interface. read...
How I connect with non-English speakers about open source
One of the wonderful things about open source is the large community of writers contributing to our shared knowledge base. Not surprisingly, much of this is written in English; but there is also a well-served demand for open source-related information in other languages. read...
