This paper presents a personal view of the evolution of six generations of Smalltalk
in which the author played a part, starting with Smalltalk-72 and progressing through
Smalltalk-80 to Squeak and Etoys. It describes the forces that brought each ...

Wasmer - The Universal WebAssembly Runtime

Another day with an exam-related Internet shutdown in Syria. Right on schedule. Two more to go before the end of the exam process. blog.cloudflare.com/syria-exam-rel…

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said Wednesday it will begin testing ads inside its virtual reality Oculus headsets in partnership with several game developers, including Resolution Games.

A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.

Scammers are sending fake replacement devices to Ledger customers exposed in a recent data breach that are used to steal cryptocurrency wallets.

News post: Gleam v0.16 released

If you read Programming books, then your goal is to learn. If you write Programming books then your goal is to teach. When I wrote my book…

Discover the most efficient way to not succeed as a developer.

A practical guide to starting your own Internet Service Provider.

Working-class teens turned junked machines into musical instruments.

How Polygon’s first billion-dollar protocol unraveled.

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Left-wing interest groups are often the fiercest supporters of regulations that make housing in the Golden State so expensive.

CaribouLite turns any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR - cariboulabs/cariboulite

Canadian company General Fusion is set to build a $400m fusion demonstrator near Oxford.

I’ve been hearing about io_uring on and off for the last couple of years. Its a relatively new technology in Linux to allow high-performance IO with very few overheads.

Madison Avenue, we’ve got a problem. Creative is dead and the spreadsheets and
algorithms murdered it. The bots have triumphed and the result is mind-numbingly
dull. “Nobody gets fired for buying IBM,” they used to say. Now, nobody gets
fired for buying Facebook…

The Amazon Appstore has announced that it will be reducing its cut of developer revenue from 30% to 20% for developers that earn less than $1 million in revenue per year.

Eurazeo leads Series F funding round, raising company valuation to over $2 billion representing the largest investment in database history.

The Audio Working Group has published Web Audio API as a W3C Recommendation. This specification describes a high-level Web API for creating, shaping, and processing audio directly in a Web browser or in web applications.