A homebrew 16-bit CPU with a homebrew Unix-like-ish operating system. - jes/scamp-cpu

Have you ever been on a really good software team? There’s this feeling of connectedness, of shared purpose. We know what we’re building, and we are skilled at building it together. Thi…

Users are saying a recent algorithm update has officially ruined the app.

Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.

Everyone in tech seems to have a “terrible tech interview” story. The topic quietly orbits in the ether of our industry and periodically bursts through the a...

Ontario just passed a law making it illegal for bosses to bug their employees after-hours.
The provincial government passed the Working for Workers...

A meditation on reading, exploring what it means to read and whether it's a path to acquire wisdom.

Signal has no data to sell, no advertisers to sell it to, and no shareholders to benefit from such a sale. We’re building a different kind of tech – where your data stays in your hands – but we’re also building a different kind of tech organization. One without…

This post is about minimizing amount of disk IO and CPU overhead when reading Zip files.
I recently saw an article about a new format that was faster than zip.
This is quite surprising as to my mind, …

Floods and megadroughts affected the Neolithic cultures in the Yangtze River Delta between 4300 and 4000 years ago.

A denoscription of the one-more-re-nightmare compiler, including how we got to writing it, and what tricks are used to match strings quickly.

Four platform additions for speeding up application development announced: Visual Studio Code and Figma integration, Uno Platform Extensions and UI Toolkit.

The company had blocked searches for the US teen - and removed praise and support for him

We’re changing our company name so we can give the full @Square brand to our Seller business. So now we need a name to tie @Square, @CashApp, @TIDAL, and @TBD54566975 together into one. That name is “Block.” Why? twitter.com/blocks/status/…

On formulas, fiction, and new approaches

But America’s champion philanthropist operates like a middle-class donor

A theory that cloud vendors will focus on the lowest layer of the infrastructure stack and startups will take over the software layer.