BurningbirdRecently I ran into some problems when I upgraded my server to PHP 7.4. The problems were solvable but I figured I’d revert to my installation pre-PHP 7.4 upgrade and then work the issues off-line. But when I tried to re-install my system from a backup, all hell broke loose.
With the EOL (end of life) of Node 4.0 and the introduction of Node 10 coming in April, it’s time to look at that perennial Node problem: what to do about the Buffer constructors.
Update: Ars Technica has produced the best write up on what’s happening with Meltdown and Spectre. Earlier: Two days ago, the tech world ran into a wall. Probably the best summation of the event is the following tweet: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/948969633683558401 Yes, this is about the CPU bug. The CPU bug. The bug that demonstrates that sometimes […]
Earlier today I was stunned to read about the accusations of sexual harassment against Robert Scoble. We aren’t friends, but we have friends in common and we have interacted remotely in the past. I had no idea, no clue, that Scoble had harassed women. There are some people you might suspect of doing so, and some […]
I upgraded my server to Ubuntu 16.04, converted my websites over to HTTPs, and locked them in using HSTS. It would be a shame to stop here without making one last change: upgrading to the HTTP/2 protocol. The web has been spinning along on HTTP 1.1 since 1997. It’s been a good and faithful servant. […]