In an attempt to render images appearing on my blog, on my cell phone, I changed the Site URL for the Headless WordPress back-end, in its settings. Images were being displayed correctly but the endpoint for the WordPress site was unreachable. I could no longer add. or edit post, almost breaking my website.

Facial detection can be used to identify people in a group and can increase convenience as with Amazon go stores -where shoppers can just grab the goods they need and leave without having to wait in lines, validate identity as with facial unlock in new phones, enforce laws like that against jaywalking by sending tickets to perpetrators residence as in Shenzhen and identify and rescue lost and kidnapped children […]

Ethical theories can be used to evaluate the morality of actions and decisions made in the tech sector. Based on the theory employed an action, like the deployment of a neutralizing worm in response to a malicious worm, can be viewed as either ethical or unjust. These ethical theories include but are not limited to Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism, and Kantianism […]

Autonomous vehicles will need to constantly make time-sensitive decisions and might even be asked to prioritize someone’s life over another person’s life. In essence, they might even be asked to decide the worth of a life. What ethical model should be used, whose life is to be saved and who is to make these decisions become important questions that need to be answered before autonomous vehicles are ubiquitous […]

When contributors decide on which open source project to work on, probably the most important motivator is the product itself. A developer is more likely to work on a project that will be of use to themselves down the line. For this reason, demos of the software, screenshots, video walkthroughs of the software can attract several contributors. Apart from a minimum viable product, good documentation is paramount to attracting new contributors. The documentation can help developers learn about the software and convey the maintainer’s expectations. Without good documentation, new developers can feel lost and are discouraged from working on a FOSS project […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is probably the most successful FOSS project. Although, the Red Hat flavor of Linux is free and open-source Red Hat customers are able to subscribe to a stable release of Red Hat Linux. Red Hat bundles software and adds new features to the OS. Users don’t have to worry about the software being buggy and error-prone. While this packaged OS is also available for free the subscription comes with customer service, installation and repairs. Red Hat works because it is able to remove complexity and provide ease of use and stability to its customers […]

Participating in FOSS projects can seem like a good learning opportunity for developers who are looking to gain some industry experience. Legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) describes how newcomers become experienced members and eventually old-timers of a community of practice or collaborative projects. Welcoming FOSS projects allow for LPP which ensures the continuity of the project and also offers new developers a chance to feel like they are working on something substantial, with a real-life impact. To gain experience, the barrier to entry for FOSS projects is also lower compared to other avenues like a job […]

In the latter half of the 20th-century software engineers started to notice that most software was not being developed in time, was riddled with bugs and was not meeting customer expectations. This necessitated the need for better processes and methodology in building software. Software processes are a set of related activities that lead to the production of software […]

Software testing ensures that software is able to achieve a programmer’s intended functionality. It is the process of identifying correctness, completeness, and quality of developed code to ensure that it is defect-free. This is important to ensure that the end-user does not face any expensive or dangerous repercussions due to bugs in the code […]