VC money is pouring into servant economy companies like grocery delivery that capitalise on human laziness. This needs to stop.

Comfortable computer use while laying down, dealing with back pain. Hammocks!

According to one estimate, there are around 25 blimps worldwide. What will it take to bring back these majestic beasts of the sky?

When his phone wakes him at two in the morning, operations engineer Andy Pearson knows it’s bad news. There’s a major server problem, and hundreds of client websites are down. The next sixteen minutes are going to get intense.

The long read: To every age dogged with pollution, accidents and congestion, the transport solution for the next generation seems obvious – but the same problems keep coming back

For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape — closely monitored, but largely unchecked. Their flames might explode into plumes of heat that burn whole hillsides at once, ...

This post belongs in the ‘highly speculative’ category. It contains ideas that I’ve yet to flesh out and properly pin down. Reader beware!

Colaboratory notebook

Earth is on average ten times closer to Mercury than Jupiter, but missions to both planets can take a similar amount of time to reach their science orbits. Why is that?

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The Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve — it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium…

I wrote a book — The newline Guide to Bash Scripting! I’ll let the intro speak for itself:

A 2,500 year old ancient olive tree on the island of Evia was destroyed today in the ongoing wildfires consuming the region.

I was preparing to knock off work on a recent Friday evening when a curious and annoying email came in via the contact form on this site: “Hello I go by the username Nuclear27 on your site Briansclub[.]com,” wrote “Mitch,”…

What’s new in v2, and the least painful farewell in the history of JS.

Just 25 big cities – almost all of them in China – accounted for more than half of the climate-warming gases pumped out by a sample of 167 urban hubs around the world, an analysis of emissions trends showed on Monday.

A thorough introduction and tutorial to bpftrace: a high-level eBPF tracer

They describe themselves as “apolitical” hackers who want to end Belarus’ “terrorist” regime and ensure equal rights for all. But the actions of Cyberpartisans, a group of Belarusian hackers who claim to have secured access to the passport data of millions…

An argument that it is time to re-think our approach to natural language understanding, since the ‘big data’ approach to NLU is implausible and both technically and theoretically flawed..