[T]he techniques described in this section are generic enough and also work for reversing other frozen Python applications.

It seems that lately every week there is some new security measure is broken. While part of the actual research shows that security through obscurity in the end never seems to work, I am not happy to see that they managed to bypass the two-factor authentication. In defence of Dropbox though, their security keeps improving with every version.

Amazon doesn’t even know what some of their limits are

A nice writeup of a presentation about the way Reddit scaled their architecture using AWS. I always like it when the pros, cons and the learned lessons of choices are laid out like this.

Small drones have been helping a growing number of researchers produce three-dimensional models of Peruvian sites instead of the usual flat maps – and in days and weeks instead of months and years.

As a child I always wanted to become an archaeologist, and on that basis alone this kind of thing is just great. Using drones like this shows how useful they can actually be when they are used for a good purpose. And as the prices keep going down it’s a matter of time before we see more and more uses these drones can be applied to.

Of course, we shouldn’t forget about the other side of the coin of Droney.

Developers everywhere - PHP is not the same as it was even two years ago. Stop acting like it.

As someone who has had to deal with applications in Drupal, Magento, and similar frameworks I can only agree with Jarrod’s statements here. While those are indeed a good reason to look at PHP as something horrible, the way PHP has grown is spectacular. In fact, I believe that it the tools in the community have improved so much that it is probably quicker and faster right now to start a new project while pulling in useful tools with Composer than try to fix an existing codebase.

Via Alrayyes

Who wouldn’t want their deployments to go like this?