At the American university where I teach, one of my assigned tasks is to advise
undergraduates—mostly freshmen and sophomores. This essay describes a
conversation I had in 2017 with one of those advisees. I will call him Daniel.

Daniel was a sophomore at…

This time last year, OnlineOrNot was born. Here's what I learned in the first year of running the business.

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by joshua stein (@jcs)

Undersea pipeline, meant to ferry natural gas directly from Russia to northern Germany, is owned by a subsidiary of Gazprom.

Running a development team for each mobile platform sucks up resources from other work. Flutter is the most popular way for one development team to build on all platforms.

The human body generates its own heat. Some people can adjust the thermostat.

Resources for real-time and historical information about the Slack service.

+ tl;dr - This post explains how I built LoginWithHN.com (LWHN), an unofficial OAuth2+OpenID connect provider for HackerNews. LWHN is for builders who want to share things with the HN audience, and cuts down friction like any other OAuth2+OpenID connect…

As software engineers, we're constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn't it weird that we rarely give a moment's thought to the program for our own careers?

Resources for real-time and historical information about the Slack service.

With cellphones in widespread use, getting everyone access to banking is within reach.

Wide-ranging privacy case has already led to threats from social media giant

Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they…