This morning I converted what I think are the last of my self hosted commercial SSL certs to Let’s Encrypt certs via Certbot. I still have reservations about so many certs going through a single provider and, more generally, the value of HTTPS everywhere, but saving money on certs is suddenly more pressing as I stare down [...]
astormIn languages like C and C++, most teaching approaches will have you think about creating variables in two distinct phases. First, you’ll declare the variable. int c; and then you’ll initialize the variable with its default value c = 42 When you declare the variable, you’ll telling the compiler what sort of value the [...]
astormI’ve been wondering lately about the future of languages like ruby, python, PHP, and (to a lesser extent) Node.js. These are languages that launched in the 1990s (except for Node.js) and were adopted widely despite not having a large vendor behind them. The development, maintenance, and promotion of Java and .NET are backed by [...]
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