After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.

The core software distribution for the Inform 7 programming language. - ganelson/inform

Companies demanding people back to the office could see more employees leave their jobs soon, according to a new report from the ADP Research Institute.

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after…

Over the last two years, Bluetooth® audio support has steadily grown in PipeWire. Here's a look at where things stand.

In my last post I introduced an Emacs Lisp VM I was writing in Rust. My stated goal at the time was to complete a garbage collector. I think Rust has some really interesting properties that will make building garbage collectors easier and safer. Many of the…

Plus: a brief digression into why The New Yorker hyphenates “teen-ager.”

This paper (ICDE'18) introduces Anna, a CALM / CRDT implementation of a distributed key-value system both at the data structure level as w...

Built for conversation from the ground up.

A couple of years ago, I was back home in Brooklyn between college semesters and reading Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy for my experimental fiction class (yes, yes, eye roll away). I had …

On this page of Talmud we read of a very bizarre case: יבמות נד, א  אָמַר רַבָּה: נָפַל מִן הַגָּג וְנִתְקַע — חַיָּיב בְּאַרְבָּעָה דְּבָרִים, וּבִיבִמְתּוֹ לֹא קָנָה. בְּנֵזֶק, בְּצַעַר, בְּשֶׁבֶת, בְּרִפּוּי. אֲבָל בּוֹשֶׁת לָא מִיחַיַּיב, דְּאָמַר מָר:…

Monthly mortgage payments are up nearly $500 since last year and more than double what they were a decade ago.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law SB 220, a bill mandating personal finance classes for high school students.

The FBI searched emails, texts and other electronic communications of as many as 3.4 million U.S. residents without a warrant over a year, the nation’s top spy chief said in a report.

Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…