#224 – August 13, 2017
How To Develop Your Own Boot Loader
This article is written for everyone interested in design of different things, particularly, developers working with high-level languages (Java, C, C++, etc.), who sometimes need to do low-level programming in Windows. Our example of low-level programming is based around system loading, i.e. we will show how you can develop a bootloader.
The Rise of Test Impact Analysis
Test Impact Analysis (TIA) is a modern way of speeding up the test automation phase of a build. It works by analyzing the call-graph of the source code to work out which tests should be run after a change to production code. Microsoft has done some extensive work on this approach, but it's also possible for development teams to implement something useful quite cheaply.
Compression is everywhere. It's used to more efficiently store data on hard drives, send TV signals, transmit web pages like this one, stream Netflix videos, package up video games for distribution, the list is endless. Almost no significant area of modern computing exists that doesn't make use of compression technologies.
Why Github can't host the Linux Kernel Community
A while back at the awesome maintainerati I chatted with a few great fellow maintainers about how to scale really big open source projects, and how github forces projects into a certain way of scaling. The linux kernel has an entirely different model, which maintainers hosting their projects on github don’t understand, and I think it’s worth explaining why and how it works, and how it’s different.
Don't Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics
As best I understand it, one of the most effective SEO things you can do is to repeat all the important words on your site down the bottom of the page. To save it from looking weird, you make the text the same colour as the background so people can't actually see it, but the search engines pick it up. Job done, profit!