The latest announcements for Windows 11 have revealed that the next version of the Windows operating system will have very stringent hardware requirements. Some of them are, in my opinion, quite reasonable. For example, they’re finally dropping support for…

After almost thirty-eight years as a technical assistant at a Detroit public library and six years of retirement, Barbara Yokom found herself, in 2018,

Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces.

At 11:45 on Sunday, I was on a phone call with Near. They’d just taken a large overdose of codeine and guanfancine. I saw a photo of the noose. 30 minutes into the call, Les Voyages De L'âme by Alcest started playing at the other end. I wouldn’t hear their…

Mistral Contrastin's thought bubble,
blog, and personal revelations.

The proposed law would likely run afoul of the First Amendment in the U.S., but despite popular misconceptions Canada is actually its own country.

The wonderful world of Surreal numbers

"They always wanted to help others and show them a path to the future"

I like FireWire and I still use FireWire (I've even used it to power a WiFi-to-Ethernet connector on a PowerBook G4), but this is a retroco...

Ben Eater's 8 bit breadboard computer emulator in C++ - GitHub - stackbuffer/TinyE8: Ben Eater's 8 bit breadboard computer emulator in C++

As I work on Zorex, an omnipotent regexp engine I have stumbled into a world of tales about why Unicode text sorting is so annoying in the modern day. Let's talk about that.

Huy Fong's Sriracha hit revenue of $150m+ a year...with no sales team, no trademark and $0 in ad spend. Its creator is Vietnamese-American David Tran, making the sauce's success a tale of immigrant hustle and a product that literally sells itself. Here's…

The financial watchdog has ruled that Binance cannot conduct any regulated activity in the UK.

Garage Door Monitor (OverHeadDoor) - Python3, Raspbian - GitHub - casspop/ohd: Garage Door Monitor (OverHeadDoor) - Python3, Raspbian

Reproduced here for the first time: a trio of sketches from Vincent’s village—designed as a bookmark