I used to think that I didn’t need comments if I wrote self-documenting code. However, I have realized that I do write comments, and that I find them really useful. To see how many comments I…

Update (May 2023): After 8 years, this solution continues to serve as a pillar for how Amazon builds remote client libraries for resilient systems. Most AWS SDKs now support exponential backoff and jitter as part of their retry behavior when using standard…

How I built a click farm to “bypass” Cloudflare’s CAPTCHA killer with some cheap USB security keys, an Arduino, and a bit of python.

The right kind of bubble brings together the right group of people at the right time — it's a coordinating mechanism that can do a surprising amount of good.

AP will no longer name suspects in minor crime stories, which we sometimes cover and pick up from member news organizations as one-off briefs because...

Utopia is a production-grade online coding and design tool for React that reads and writes code you’ll want to commit.

Southwest Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday for the second time in less than 24 hours, amid reports of a nationwide computer issues.

Nile Green reviews Afshin Marashi's "Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran."

As he prepares to release his final "Jackass" film, the stuntman takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career.

An RFC for a new series of HTTP status codes covering developer fouls. - joho/7XX-rfc

Screenshots reveal new Start menu and taskbar design.

(Sequel here: <a href="https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-paradise-is-actually-a-medieval-hellhole-c1ca122efdec" target="_blank"><em>Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future.</em></a>)