Tech Timewasters, July 2015

The Web is big. The Web has links. Here are your July links:

• Scaling a website to absorb one hundred million hits over the course of a few days: https://medium.com/message/how-paper-magazines-web-engineers-scaled-kim-kardashians-back-end-sfw-6367f8d37688
• Bruce Schneier — if you’re not already reading his blog for your high-level security thinking, you need to start: https://www.schneier.com/
• An incredible read about software development, the tech industry, how all this code stuff works, its history, and how it interfaces with businesses. This will take you a while to read, but it’s worth it: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/
• An incredibly useful list of security and penetration testing (a.k.a. hacking) commands: http://pwndizzle.blogspot.ie/2014/12/crest-crt-exam-preparation.html
• A 5-minute Cyberpunk gem: http://www.thegia.com/avestal/iceicebaby.html
• Every system administrator, developer, and IT person needs to know about Regular Expressions: https://nikic.github.io/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html
• When I’m working, I listen to the stuff here to help me concentrate — there are some really cool sounds here; most of them are free: http://mynoise.net/

Have fun!