(With apologies to Derek Zoolander and Justin Steven.  And to whoever had to touch the HP-UX NTP setup at Queensland Police after I left. And to anyone who prefers the American spelling &#8220…

Maybe the first programming language didn't really matter, because students learning programming were different.

Some Austin cyclists are not happy about the robots using bike lanes, while others are optimistic that sharing their path will lead to good things down the road.

The CompCert formally-verified C compiler. Contribute to AbsInt/CompCert development by creating an account on GitHub.

From my last post on this site: One recurring theme: Bright kids of a certain age are just smart enough to jump to crazy conclusions rooted ...

Acousto-electric devices reveal new road to miniaturizing wireless tech

In partnership with the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs gathered cases of China’s transnational repression of Uyghurs from public sources, including government documents, human rights reports, and reporting by credible…

Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...

I started a Twitter conversation last week about API endpoints that stream large amounts of data as an alternative to APIs that return 100 results at a time and require …

Even in an incomplete state, quantum field theory is the most successful physical theory ever discovered. Nathan Seiberg, one of its leading architects, talks about the gaps in QFT and how…

Using systemd to avoid having to write some risky code

Altice wins the race to the bottom.

The move could boost a vessel’s fuel efficiency by 20 percent

One of the naughty details of my Varnish software is that the configuration is written in a domain-specific language that is converted into C source code, compiled into a shared library, and executed at hardware speed. That obviously makes me a programming…

A visual explainer of the numbers behind America’s ubiquitous bargain-basement chains.