Browsers have become powerful beasts. First used to share research papers at CERN, the browser can now run Google Earth, play Unity 3D games, and even design buildings in AutoCAD.

With this kind of power, could a browser compile and run your code too? Ridiculous. Surely that couldn’t work…

Then again, why not? There’s no way I could ignore such a fascinating challenge. After four months of punching the keys and poring over documentation, I’ve finally created my answer: Hackpad.

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Noonian is a research tool for finding the laptop that fits your needs. You can search for laptops and then run comparisons to narrow down your choices quickly. Check it out at noonian.com.

Later on, the plan is to open this up to comparing builds of different computers and their components. With Noonian, I aim to avoid the negative tendencies and shortcomings typically associated with product search by making it easier to shop smarter.

Inspired by George Orwell’s 1984, Cognitive Bias demonstrates how the “illusory truth effect” takes hold, even in simple conversation. The game is open source on GitHub and you can play it here.

Web services running on the same network can be difficult to set up correctly, especially if you want all of them to work on an external network. In this tutorial, I will guide you through setting up a Docker Swarm to route traffic to the appropriate containers, automatically.

There are three parts to get your cloud ready for web services: a load balancer to spread connections to available servers, an ingress router to direct traffic to containers, and DNS to point local traffic to the right IP addresses. See the above diagram for a quick layout.