It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.

Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications. - MayaPosch/NymphCast

The primary technology that a military aircraft uses to lock and track an enemy aircraft is its onboard radar. Aircraft radars typically have two modes: search and track. In search mode, the radar sweeps a radio beam across the sky in a zig-zag pattern. When…

Municipal authorities forwarded the names and addresses of activists to the Chinese, Venezuelan and Angolan embassies.

A while back there was a thread on one of our company mailing lists about SSH quoting, and I posted a long answer to it. Since then a few people have asked me questions that caused me to reach for it, so I thought it might be helpful if I …

In this article, we'll learn about the concept of responsive images — images that work well on devices with widely differing screen sizes, resolutions, and other such features — and look at what tools HTML provides to help implement them. This helps to improve…

Tight feedback loops are seductive because they give us the feeling of rapid improvement. And it’s true that in the early stages of learning a craft, tight feedback loops do help us improve quickly…

Systems thinking gives you an advantage in almost every area of life—even the game of Risk.

Breaking changes:

Adopt type: module. #3501
Adopt InternMap for ordinal scale domains.
d3.ascending and d3.descending no longer consider null comparable.
d3.bin now ignores nulls.
Convert array-li...

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions.

The Rust-loving team at Immunant has been hard at work on C2Rust, a migration framework that takes the drudgery out of migrating to Rust. Our goal is to make safety improvements to the translated Rust automatically where we can, and help the programmer do…

A subatomic particle has been found to switch between matter and antimatter, according to Oxford physicists analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider. It turns out that an unfathomably tiny weight difference between two particles could have saved the…