Nix package creation: install a not yet supported font

The Nix packages collection is large with over 60 000 packages. However, chances are that sometimes the package you need is not available. You must integrate it yourself. I needed…

Los Angeles Elects Another Reformer Sheriff To Replace Its Previous Reformer Sheriff

from the spin-the-wheel! dept The Los Angeles Sheriffs Department (LASD) has been overseen by a succession of terrible elected officials. Sheriff Lee Baca presided over a department that filled its…

14 hot language projects riding WebAssembly

Today’s web applications are nowhere near as fast and responsive as native desktop applications, but what if they could be? That’s the promise of WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a low-level, assembly-like…

Why local currency stablecoins are good for non-US countries

People ask me all the time about what I think of digital asset classes like central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins. I like to approach these questions by thinking…

Using Cloudera Deploy to install Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud

Following our recent Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) overview, we cover how to deploy CDP private Cloud on you local infrastructure. It is entirely automated with the Ansible cookbooks published by…

A review of Singapore’s business and tech landscape for 2022

2022 was supposed to be the year we put the pandemic behind us and enjoy a repeat of the roaring 20s experts predicted would sweep through our society. Unfortunately, things…

IKEA and Sonos team up again, building a floor lamp speaker this time

IKEA and Sonos collaborated three years ago to build a table lamp with an embedded speaker. Embedding a Wi-Fi speaker inside a lamp isn’t as nutty a proposition as it…

Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum is one of the most well-known institutions of its kind. Located in Mountain View, Calif., the museum chronicles the impact of computing and technological innovation through…

Visual Studio Code 1.74 boosts remote development

With newly released Visual Studio Code 1.74, the Microsoft-developed code editor introduces a remote tunneling capability that allows developers to securely connect to their VS Code machine from any device…