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.

FUN FACT: so tumblr has added more strict tag filtering for their iOS app, and now won't let you see posts with certain tags in the app. They of course keep this blacklist secret, but tumblr users have been figuring out the list. Here's the funny part:

The FAA has prepared samples of the NOTAMs it may start issuing starting Jan. 5 when 5G broadband service begins in 46 cities. If the NOTAMs are issued, they would drastically affect operations of airlines, commuter airlines and many charter and business…

The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo continues to grow rapidly, with the company now averaging over 100 million daily search queries and growing by almost 47% in 2021.

On November 30, 2021, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021[1] an omnibus bill introduced by the Progressive Conservatives which amends a number of employment-related statutes.  The amendments received Royal Assent on December…

Supply is low, demand is high—but that alone cannot explain the weird indignity of renting a vehicle.

Nature - Plasma from individuals vaccinated with BNT162b2 exhibits 22-fold less neutralization capacity against Omicron (B.1.1.529) than against an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain but residual...

Over the past few years, I’ve been highly critical of the Ponzi Sector. This is a whole grouping of companies that has no ability or desire to ever become profitable. Instead, these businesses have focused on rapid revenue growth because the stock market…