An inside look at the creation and fallout of Square's industry-defining role-playing game.

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Markets rise, and markets fall. This much, at least, is well-known. But why do market cycles occur? What causes the pendulum to swing from euphoria to crisis and back? Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably…

To say I've been skeptical about Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto universe would be an understatement of epic proportions. Since the early 2010s, some of my most ferocious Twitter battles have been against the HODL army with the laser eyes. There's just…

There aren't a lot of technical reasons for it being left behind, and revisiting the phone, it shouldn't be

I released a new tool this week: google-drive-to-sqlite. It’s a CLI utility for fetching metadata about files in your Google Drive and writing them to a local SQLite database. It’s …

The core team is currently looking at restructuring the project's leadership to provide more pathways for community members to become actively involved in the project's stewardship. Swift has gradually introduced more workgroups to focus on technical and…

Over the last 50 years, we argue that incentives for academic scientists have become increasingly perverse in terms of competition for research funding, development of quantitative metrics to measure performance, and a changing business model for higher ...

Intel unveiled BonanzaMine, its first-generation blockchain accelerator ASIC effort.

The core team is currently looking at restructuring the project's leadership to provide more pathways for community members to become actively involved in the project's stewardship. Swift has gradually introduced more workgroups to focus on technical and…

We review the most important statistical ideas of the past half century, which we categorize as: counterfactual causal inference, bootstrapping and simulation-based inference, overparameterized mod...

Prisma Client Python is an auto-generated and fully type-safe database client designed for ease of use - RobertCraigie/prisma-client-py

Manipulating and enhancing images may seem something that is particular to the current digital age. The Kattendijke Chronicle, a late fifteenth-century manunoscript from the Low Countries, contains fascinating examples of analogue image editing.

A gallery of retrocomputing that shaped the C language

We built an AirTag clone capable of silently and continuously tracking someone. The device accomplishes this by sending just one beacon per generated public key, thereby staying invisible to tracking notifications for iOS users and Apple’s Tracker Detect…

Arduino 6502 Controller. Contribute to billziss-gh/arduino-6502ctl development by creating an account on GitHub.