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Amazon Mechanical Turk

Amazon crowdsources some work for humans that computers just cannot complete. Tasks often pay only a few cents to a…

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RetireJS for Eclipse extension

Several years ago I wrote an Eclipse plugin to help me identify vulnerable javascript libraries using RetireJS. On a whim,…

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Neofetch for displaying system information

Originally designed for use in demonstrations on Linux bash in an easy to understand way that could be used in…

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Mining

Unless you've been completely removed from society over the past 10 years or so, you've likely heard about Bitcoin and…

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Microsoft ending support and removing Legacy Edge on Windows 10

Another Microsoft browser bites the dust. Legacy Edge, the original "Edge" on that was designed to replace MSIE on Windows…

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Geekcode

A very long time ago there was an online means to identify yourself online with a short abstracted code that…

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Minify .js files during Maven builds

Minifying files for use on the web is essential to improving performance, to reduce network overhead as well as a…

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Minify .css files during Maven builds

Minifying files for use on the web is essential to improving performance, to reduce network overhead as well as a…

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Enabling HTTP/3 (QUIC) in browsers for improved network performance

Back in 2015, Google introduced SPDY as a method of improving TCP connections. HTTP/3 now improves upon that by removing…

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After a very long run, Adobe Flash is dead!

This was very long overdue for a variety of reasons. While Flash became almost ubiquitous on the web under Macromedia…

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