This might get me some looks, but I have pretty solidly decided to go in on using XChaCha20+Blake3 as the AE of choice for my future open source work. There are numerous reasons for this decision, but it mainly comes down to the desire for defense in depth…

Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi (许立志), the Foxconn worker who took his own life on 30 September 2014, at the age of 24, in Shenzhen, China. Also includes an obituary with some explanatory notes.

Engineering physics PhD student Khadijeh Miarabbas Kiani has fabricated a laser on silicon using a simple, cost-effective method — something that has been a longstanding challenge in the field of silicon photonics.

A new book by journalist Lina Zeldovich traces the management of human waste—and underscores poop's potential as a valuable resource

Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has taken a ‘sizable stake’ and intends to ‘push for changes’, reports Bloomberg News

A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency.

On why GPT-3 as is will not cost many people their jobs or soon lead to AGI

A REPL for x86-64 assembly language. Contribute to tenderlove/asmrepl development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative....

A python library to artfully visualize Factorio Blueprints and an interactive web demo for using it. - piebro/factorio-blueprint-visualizer

It took until this year to write my first eBook and now it generates revenue while I sleep. What's holding you back? Learn from my experience so far.

On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for 24 hours. This outage was the result of our attempt to enable DNSSEC — an extension intended to secure the DNS protocol, required for FedRAMP Moderate —…

Basalt is system for graphic design that allows a designer to think in terms of relationships between objects, and it makes it easy to build and reuse abstractions.

Seeking flexibility or escape from corporate bureaucracy, employees are discovering their inner entrepreneur to start businesses ranging from advertising to handling e-commerce logistics out of their homes.