A hard look at the motivations for — and inevitable realities of — the Cult of Agile daily stand-up. This toxic workplace ritual is designed to demoralise engineers and perpetuate micromanagement. Stop doing them.

The 2,000-line poem by Scottish physician John Armstrong was written during a time of pandemic, war and increasing public disinformation. What can readers learn from it today?

Use the github.dev web-based editor from your repository or pull request to create and commit changes.

Until recently, a small Wikipedia edition said Dianne Feinstein was San Francisco's mayor. This project could help avoid that sort of out of date info.

RISC-V gets interest from a major player

My code doesn't compile. Why?

The number of times in my career I have been asked a variation on "why doesn't my application work" is shocking. When you meet up with Operations people for drinks, you'll hear endless variations on it. Application teams attempting…

Github Copilot Security Study: Developer Should Remain Awake as GitHub Copilot is Generating Insecure Code In 40% Of Experiments.

Take-Two Interactive has sued several enthusiasts said to be behind the popular re3 and reVC Grand Theft Auto fan projects.

Past, Present, and Future

Forthcoming software from the GP-Write consortium aims to make large-scale genome editing and design more accessible

Apple has delayed the rollout of the Child Safety Features that it announced last month following negative feedback, the company has today...

Open source emojis for designers, developers and everyone else!

In 2017, I interviewed with Elizabeth Holmes to be Head of Finance at Theranos. I'm convinced I learned more in those 45 minutes than I did in 10 years of school and work. So when I heard Elizabeth was on trial I couldn't help but recall that moment. Time…

Retailers are spending millions a year to combat organized rings that steal from their stores in bulk and peddle the goods online, often on Amazon. It is a menace that has been supercharged by the rapid recent boom in online commerce.

A new RNA breakthrough is allowing plants to yield dramatically more crops and increase drought tolerance, which could have an impact on food scarcity and production as climate change threatens ecosystems. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein…