Optimistic Locking is a control method that assumes multiple transactions can complete concurrently without conflict. We built our ledgers API with concurrency control semantics to better manage transaction volume.

(TibetanReview.net, Aug26’21) – China has called its policies in occupied Tibet not only a great success but also an exemplar for other minority regions in a major publication released on Aug 26 to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist…

Back when we were introducing error handling for Swift, I raised the concern that the rule requiring a try label on every potentially-throwing statement was too indiscriminate. It's not that requiring a try label is always a mistake, I argued—in fact, in…

A new head has been appointed to the UK data regulator amid a plan to drive the economy using data.

Say goodbye to Groovy on August 30.

The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default. This page explains why that is important. An operating system in your best interests The Librem 5 comes with PureOS by default, not Android. It is the only smartphone on the market today to ship with a fully-free…

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced … the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously… this feeling may last for hours at a tim…

Philip Womack In Praise of the Lesser Known Siblings of Mythology   When fossicking through the cornucopia of classical mythology, we tend to stop and savour the meaty, intergenerational conflicts. The Titan Cronus overthrows his father, Uranus, scything…

What’s the piece of technology that reduced your headache the most in the last year?

For me, it’d be Portal Windows. It's a library we made at Tandem that lets you render and position native windows as simply as you render and position tooltips in your React…

LimeSDR is a low cost, open source, apps-enabled (more on that later) software defined radio (SDR) platform that can be used to support just about any type of wireless communication standard.

And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.

A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes - GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes

After using Macs for fifteen years, I switched to Linux as my main operating system and I’m enjoying it. Here’s an introduction to Linux that may help you too.

Everyone uses math libraries. Surprisingly, mainstream math libraries do not produce correct results for several thousands of inputs. Developers are seldom aware of them, which affects reproducibil…

Simulate a hole through Earth and learn where you would end up if you were to dig in that direction

The pathologies underlying brain decline can begin years before symptoms emerge. Can everyday behavior provide warning?