Japan will compensate companies to keep secret patents with potential military applications under proposed legislation, the Nikkei reported on Sunday, without citing sources.

And without additional restrictions, they may not recover for several decades.

Visualizing spatial data is an important task. This tutorial helps you with getting started with visualizing OpenStreetMap (OSM) data with PostGIS and QGIS.

It takes the most exquisite measurements you can imagine, recording the changes in current associated with different bits of DNA.

New data from ITU suggest a ‘COVID connectivity boost’ – but the world’s poorest are still being left far behind, with 2.9 billion people still offline.

The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of version 6.0.0. This is the first major version release of KiCad since 5.0.0 was released in July of 2018.
KiCad binaries are available for download for Windows, MacOS, and Linux or will be in the very…

This comes from a question posed to me and others in 2019 by Stefan Langerman, a computational geometer who also happens to be a diamond dealer. The classic ...

In my past couple articles (BeOS or NeXT: Did Apple make the wrong choice? and User Interface: Mac vs. BeOS), I’ve described parts of BeOS. It’s a technically impressive OS that lacks some of the finesse that the Mac OS has. All the advertising about Mac…

Paper backup generator suitable for long-term storage. - cyphar/paperback

CPM MagnaCut is a new stainless knife steel designed to be better than anything that has been available before. Is it a success?

“You just put a bottle of unsweetened Everclear on the cage and they love it.”

Gene therapy–mediated disruption of Hippo signaling results in tissue renewal and improved function in pigs after myocardial infarction.

If you ever lived on a farm, or in a farming community, the idea of praying for snow won’t be unfamiliar to you.

Practicing Programming
Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™
Back in October I wrote an essay in which I compared programming to other professions. In it, I made the unsubstantiated claim that programming is unusual, in that most programmers don't practice their…

On the joy of inheriting a rather bad dataset - dissecting ~120GB of terrible Google Takeout data to make it usable, using Dataflow/Beam, go, Python, and SQL.