In 2004 I was working for Microsoft in the Xbox group, and a new console was being created. I got a copy of the detailed denoscriptions of the Xbox 360 CPU and I read it through multiple times and su…

Near real-time publication of GOES-East and GOES-West images from NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

Canon joins Sony and Nikon in slowly killing off the single-lens reflex camera design. But how does this affect your lens choice in the future?

  This is the color of something infinitely hot. Of course you’d instantly be fried by gamma rays of arbitrarily high frequency, but this would be its spectrum in the visible range. This…

Make a square, split each side into two halves, producing four cells. Put a circle into each cell such that it fills it completely. There is a small gap right in the middle of the square. Put a circle there again such that it touches the other four circles.…

An interactive matrix multiplication calculator for educational purposes

Not every manufacturing node comes out perfectly and not every one comes out on time, but in the past decade and a half, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest and most technologically advanced etcher of chips in the world, has done far…

Personal blog of Christian Haschek

In today’s technological, resource-filled world, there is no excuse for New Zealand homes to be damp, cold or drafty. Even in the hottest, coldest and most

Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

At Spacelift, we use PostgreSQL (specifically Aurora Serverless) for most of our primary database needs. This article will show you our optimization story and how PostgreSQL row count estimation can go very wrong.

Rocket scientist turned bestselling author Ozan Varol shares a story about a dream, an equation, and a new take on productivity.

“Although civil wars can be among the bloodiest and most acrimonious of all armed conflicts, this particular contest was utterly genteel by comparison.” THE TERM “civil war” is something of an oxymoron. Just like “jumbo...