Continuing the recent spate of conservative book-banning initiatives, The Mcminn County School board just voted to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "MAUS" by Art Spiegelman from all of its schools, citing the inclusion of words like "God Damn"…

Spotify "regrets Neil's decision"; Young objected to COVID misinformation.

This short post describes my hypothesis for why poor software engineering practices are more viral. Simply stated: Worst practices spr...

Musician Neil Young is following through on his threat to pull his extensive and well-loved sonic catalogue from Spotify. Young took a stand against the company’s relationship with podcaster Joe Rogan this week, accusing Spotify of propagating Covid-19 misinformation…

Intel's latest chip is faster than Apple's but there are caveats.

Query data on the command line with SQL-like SELECTs powered by Python expressions - dcmoura/spyql

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Yikes.

Claire Evans searches for Susy Thunder.

Jeffrey D. Ullman and Alfred V. Aho are recipients of the 2020 ACM A.M. Turing award. They were recognized for creating fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others…

Preface Hello friends! It’s been a while. I’ve been finding it very hard to write while holding up a full-time job, and I’ve also been dealing with some very...

How to create the long-lasting computer that will save your attention, your wallet, your creativity, your soul and the planet. Killing monopolies will only [...]