How SAGE jumpstarted today’s technology and built IBM into a powerhouse.

In previous years, the core team have asked the community to write new years blog posts about Rust in the coming year. They haven't this year, but I wanted to write one anyway. However, it turned out to be harder than expected. Perhaps that's due to Rust…

Inflation jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years last month, a 7% spike from a year earlier that is increasing household expenses, eating into wage gains and heaping pressure on President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve to address what has become…

[Translations: Japanese] The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It’s well known the strictest of them don’t use electricity, or automobiles, but rather farm with manual tools and ride in…

A recent study shows why fitted masks like N95s are superior to surgical masks.

After multiple lockdowns, three vaccines, and one bout of COVID, I want my life back.

NLRB judge orders Google to shed light on its secret anti-union project.

The banking giant is betting $250M on Canadian startup Hydrostor and its novel underground system to store clean energy for the grid.

What are the biggest trends and developments in web scraping? What does 2022, likely have in store for web scraping?

TLDR Companies need to invest more in price discovery and optimization. Prices are very important, but most companies don’t try very hard to get them right. Let’s first establish that pricing is extremely important. Some general comments: Customers’ willingness…

IPython is a powerful Python REPL that gives you tab completion, better tracebacks, multiline editing, and several useful features on top…

Work continues on the Wayland driver for Wine, with a focus on improving both functonality and stability, and on providing a more upstreamable patchset.

The Federal Trade Commission wants to force sale of Instagram and WhatsApp

Today’s bug: I tried to store a UTF-8 string in a MariaDB “utf8”-encoded database, and Rails raised a bizarre error:

You've probably seen a lot of your friends share their Wordle emoji grids these past few weeks. It's a game, akin to Mastermind, that has gone viral for its simplicity yet challenge. I was curious how the game worked so I decided to pick apart the source…

Claims DRAM-like speeds and non-volatility for a thousand years.