Adam Leventhal's Blog

There is a pattern I am very fond of - “one database per tenant” in web applications with multiple, isolated users. Recently, I needed to fix an application I had for a long time where this database-per-tenant multitenancy utterly broke down, because I was…

Musk is killing the very program that took a risk on his moonshot project, directly laying the foundation for him to become the world's wealthiest man.

The art form, known as kumiko, is now practiced by designers from around the world

Most working people can be put into one of three categories, from idealistic yet unambitious to greedy and immoral. But there is another option …

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads…

My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable? How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769…

Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

Understand the mechanics, risks, and the future of IMSI catching (a.k.a. stealing your cellular ID) in 2025. Read our primer on this niche form of hacking.

Missed NASA’s People Graph webinar? Catch the recap and see how graph technology and AI are shaping the future of workforce intelligence.

The Homebrew Channel - open source edition. Contribute to fail0verflow/hbc development by creating an account on GitHub.

Savannah is a central point for development, distribution
and maintenance of free software, both GNU and non-GNU.

SnapDOM is a next-generation DOM capture engine that transforms HTML into almost any format all powered by a flexible plugin system - zumerlab/snapdom

A stack made for the open web

In an exclusive with State Of Charge's Tom Moloughney, the announcement of the Walmart EV charging network with ultra-fast DC fast-charging has gone live.

Explaining the "autism epidemic".

"Humans. Here they are. Bottleneck, bottleneck. Hi, good to see you. And some of you are terrified. You're going to be even bigger bottlenecks." - Tyler Cowen

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