There's been a bunch of talk in the news this week around a group from China claiming to break RSA encryption with a D-Wave quantum computer. In discussing this, first we need to distinguish between the two types of cryptography that we use on the web today: symmetric...
I spent some time today working with pre-signed S3 URLs for uploading content to AWS S3. Normally when I upload a file to S3 it's from the front-end of a web application. The process is a multistage approach where: * a pre-signed URL is requested. * content is posted to...
With content harvesting and AI generated slop, it's getting tough to be a human out there. 😏
OTP25 was released a couple of weeks ago bringing JIT support to ARM (aka Apple M1). However, Distillery does not support OTP25. And I doubt it ever will given that it’s been all but replaced by Releases. Distillery had a good run. But now it’s time to move...
Google has a proud history of killing off the best email applications. Take Sparrow as an example. Its innovative approach to email set the trend for the design of email for years to come. They killed it off July 20, 2012. Back then I wrote that it was a sin...
One thing that I appreciate about Apple is that they typically do the right thing. Removing the optical drive was the right choice. USB-C is amazing. I am glad they dropped the headphone jack. So it’s really strange that they’ve included a USB-A charger with the new iPhones....
HTTP/2 support already available in Phoenix thanks to Cowboy2. Depending on how your load balancing was setup you may now be in a situation where you now need to termiate TLS directly on Cowboy. When I looked into it there didn’t seem to be a lot of information...