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.

Apple retail employees are beginning to quietly organize a union but have to use Android phones to avoid the company spying on them.

Having confirmed we live on a spherical, spinning Earth whose circumference, diameter and radius are roughly 25000, 8000, and 4000 miles (40000, 13000, and 6500 km) respectively, it’s time to…

Dozens of young people were tricked into thinking they were working for a glamorous UK design agency - which didn’t really exist.

HyperLook was like HyperCard for NeWS, with PostScript graphics and noscripting plus networking. Here are three unique and wacky examples…

Early in her career as a William & Mary student, Beulah Elizabeth Cox turned in a physics exam that contained what became one of the most famous incorrect answers in science.

The hyperloop transport company laid off over 100 employees as it shifts its focus from passenger travel to cargo transport.

Invented by the region's Moorish rulers 1,200 years ago, Valencia's irrigation system is now a model for sustainable farming.