Most open source time series databases struggle with high-cardinality time series data. Learn more about high-cardinality and how to benchmark database performance with this type of data.

Freedom > portability?

Severe and unpredictable weather events like heat domes in the Pacific Northwest pose huge economic risks that aren’t being fully appreciated.  

John Lewis Partnership chair Sharon White has said the company will provide basic literacy and numeracy classes to young staff because they have been "completely failed" by the education system.

Plans like United Healthcare say it’s necessary to contain health care costs. Experts say it’s the wrong approach.

[1/2] Here is a demo of a simple, completely unoptimized terminal renderer I wrote over a few days. Supports scrollback, line wrapping, Unicode combining, RTL-over-LTR, multicolor fonts, changing fonts on the fly, etc. It runs at several thousand FPS. yo…

[EPILEPSY WARNING] At the end of this video, I demonstrate colored text on colored background tiles. The reference renderer displays this benchmark so quickly that the screen appears to flash colors violently. If you are photo-sensitive, you may want to…

Julien Blervaque and Yannick Castaing, Ubisoft Film & Television, share the experience of using Blender for Rabbids Invasion: Mission to Mars.

The HTTP Idempotency-Key request header field can be used to carry idempotency key in order to make non-idempotent HTTP methods such as "POST" or "PATCH" fault-tolerant.

Personal website of Jess Martin.

You're stuck. But what exactly is this thing we call being stuck? It's when your mental model of a program does not match the actual program...

I recently tweeted about how adding seemingly minor features can unexpectedly snowball in to a significant amount of work. I thought it was worth writing up in a blog post as a more permanent way to share the point, since it's quite interesting and probably…

Vibrations from cars and pedestrians create unique signals in cables. Now scientists have used the trick to show how Covid-19 brought life to a halt.

A fascinating community of scholars, thinkers, and creators working at the intersections of technology, automation, and futures emerged in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. On the one hand, there were those studying technology as a means…

Working hard is a great way to accelerate learning, but it can come at a cost. This post shares my experience and lessons taken from great role models I've found along the way.

PRIVATE CARS WERE RELATIVELY SCARCE in 1919 and horse-drawn conveyances were still common. In residential districts, electric streetlights had not yet