Copyright 2023 Roman Garnett, published by Cambridge University Press

In a world with tools like NPM that are supposed to make websites fast why have they gotten so slow?

In Austin, Texas, and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?

A DSL that translates to regex. Contribute to AbhinavOmprakash/luna development by creating an account on GitHub.

California is forcing cities to write their own upzoning plans.

Most of the wealth created since 1971 is a result of Intel’s 4004 microprocessor.

Photographer Ibarionex Perello recalls how school picture day would go back in the 1970s at the Catholic school he attended in South Los Angeles. He recalls that kids would file into the school auditorium in matching uniforms. They’d sit on a stool, the photographer…

The humble ‘retro’ corded headphone is making an unexpected return, for both aesthetic and practical reasons.

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the „condensed time line“ section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away…

None of my neighbors subscribe to my Substack newsletter, as far as I can tell. That’s fine with me. I don’t talk much about my vocation around here. We’ve lived in this house for many years (although we will be moving in a few days), and during that whole…

Homo sapiens migrated to the continent in waves – but the reasons for their early failures to overcome Neanderthals are a mystery

Describes how to create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel using Excel's charting capabilities

According to the major monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—humans have a special nature and destiny, different from and superior to

According to Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel was the greatest logician since Aristotle. (Alfred Tarski, ever competitive, declared himself the world’s

It is entirely appropriate to celebrate Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 200th birthday with a biography of his second wife. For the arrival in 1866 of the

Relics





Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that:




...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers.  Whenever…

Understanding depression as an altered state of consciousness, like a dream or drug trip, could help people awaken from it

Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop. One enthusiast is spreading the word of their amazing migrations, with the help of a research project tracking 20 tagged birds in...