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Gmail accounts have begun rejecting Emails without DMARC The Problem Gmail accounts have begun rejecting emails from hosts that do not have a DMARC authentication mechanism. It may just be the beginning, as other mail servers may follow suit. DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance) shows that that mail server is allowed to send […]
The top 4 best practices for managing engineering teams remotely, according to managers from productivity companies like Asana, GitHub, and Atlassian (TEAM, MSFT) https://ift.tt/2WW8RHl The coronavirus crisis has disrupted nearly every part of corporate life, including how software teams conduct — and communicate about — their work. The change has spurred engineering managers from Asana, […]
7 debugging techniques for developers to speed up troubleshooting in production https://ift.tt/2Cnb1IB Providing production support to an application is one of the most challenging aspects of software development. Developers are assigned to the maintenance team and work on patching bugs on the application. They are, however, also available on-call in case a production outage happens, in which […]
PiHole is a service that prevents advertisements to be served to any device on your network. When a web browser or App tries to download an ad, Pi Hole checks to see if domain in the URL is an advertiser, and if so return that the domain is not found. Basically any ads get sucked […]
In Part 2 we shared files using a Samba server. Now a more advanced way to share media (video, music, pictures) is to use a media server. A Raspberry Pi can make for a great Media Centre experience. Most modern smart TVs can automatically detect a media server on your network. The go to media […]
Introduction A Samba Server is a simple way to share files on your local network. In this article we are going to create a Samba share on the Raspberry Pi to make it easy to read and write files for everyone on your network to use. [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Image_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Steps Connect to your Pi over terminal […]
Introduction The Raspberry Pi is an awesome device with lots of potential. This is the first part in a series of articles to get the most out of the device. I’m currently using my Raspberry Pi to serve a slew a functionality. From being a network drive to store media to eliminating ads on the […]
Overview What is a Hybrid Mobile Application? Hybrid mobile apps are applications the combine the flexibility and speed of web development and allow you to run those web sites inside a native device such as an iPhone or Android phone. They install like a regular native app, however behind the scenes are running a Single […]
Overview Git is a modern Source Control Management tool. It’s wildly popular since it provides a mechanisms to broadly share and merge code bases. This article lists the most common commands and by no means replaces the extensive documentation found here: git-scm.com/doc Commands Configure Git git config –global user.name “wassamz” git config –global user.email “wassam@email.com” […]
I think a critical part of building an empathetic engineering culture is understanding decision impact. This is a blind spot that I see happening a lot: a deliberate effort to understand the effects caused by a decision. How does adopting X affect operations? Does our dev tooling support this? Is this architecture supported by our current infrastructure? […]