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

The Navy has patented technology to create mid-air images to fool infrared and other sensors, offering a game-changing method of protecting aircraft from heat-seeking missiles. It may also provide a clue about the source of some recent UFO sightings by military…

A new report offers solutions to the problems that hound social media, from the spread of misinformation to the lack of competition.

How to build, version, and install libraries

It is fascinating to learn how three plant-derived drugs – caffeine, opium and mescaline – can shape society.

Implementing an 8080 emulator in a microservice architecture on top of kubernetes

We’re not the man we used to be. Over the last 20 years, genomics, ancient DNA, and paleoanthropology have joined forces to completely…

It covers how to make a time-series database engine from scratch