In the world of cryptocurrencies, which incidentaly is this world, Bitcoin has long been dominating. However, said dominance has not been without its challenges. Ethereum is another cryptocurrency which has…
How Does Ethereum Differ From Bitcoin?
What Is Material Design?
Attempting to define Material Design presents a unique challenge for most people, myself included. The Material Design language has been with us for the better part of four years with…
Github Has Changed Its DNS Structure
Github's senior infrastructure engineer Joe Williams blogged about the version-control repository's move to a new architecture that includes increases support working at Github scale, from the regular simple DNS structure…
Data Driven Economics
You might be forgiven to think tech companies like Google are exclusively engaged in the products they produce, be it software or hardware. Their bottom line would suggest otherwise. Google,…
Here's What You Need To Know About Google's New OS
So far, all the public knows about Fuchsia's history is that it begins in August of 2016 at Android Nougat's official release. In order to feed fanfare, much attention was…
How To Add A User on Ubuntu
If you are looking to create a new ordinary user account but immediately grant them administrator privileges on their account, please follow the following steps. Open your terminal with: Ctrl+Alt+T…
Save file in Vi/Vim
To save a file in Vi you can type the following: :wq!
Map network drive on Mac
From time to time Mac OS X might not pick up shares on the local network, in which case it would be good to mount the share as a network…
Check if String matches GSM7 or ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) Java
There are a couple of really neat methods to check whether a String is contained in Charset in the java.nio.charset package. The only problem with this is that when the…
These Technologies Could Shape 5G
With each new generation of wireless networks, faster speeds and more functionality have been delivered to our smartphones. The first mobile phones operated on 1G, text messages and USSD only…









