...and some thoughts on servers in the modern age

Have too much static data? Paul has a idea of moving some of it to a datalake. He provides a walk-through of setting up Parquet with Postgres using the parquet_fdw.

As if it were becoming impossible to climb out of the hole, Boeing lost again. It started 2022 still trying to come to terms with three years of debacle and wit

As a backend developer at a mobile app company, a common task was migrating a database schema.This could be to improve query performance, change column ...

If drones are to take over any of the numerous tasks they are supposed to, they’re going to have to get a lot smarter — and learn to work together. In a demonstration of both of these things, Chinese researchers show off a swarm of drones collectively navigating…

A modern classic that's almost 30 years old, let's find out how it works!

x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser - copy/v86

Introduction The GitLab team handbook is the central repository for how we run the company. Printed, it consists of over 2,000 pages of text. As part of our value of being transparent the handbook is open to the world, and we welcome feedback. Please make…

In the latest Numberphile video , Marcus du Sautoy introduced me to the notion of n+7 writing/poetry. Take an existing text, and replace the nouns with words seven places advanced in the dictionary . I decided to apply this treatment to the most famous…

There’s a roundabout in Garthdee in Aberdeen that’s home to a colony of rabbits. It’s a very busy junction in a fairly industrial area with large shopping centres and building sup…

The Nim team is happy to announce version 1.6.6, our third patch release for Nim 1.6.

Here is a piece of advice I often give to people who are a few years into their career.

A whimsical challenge to see how far one can go in a Kaggle competition with limited time, limited resources and pretty much limited everything else.

The majority of server programs are Linux programs. They consist of a file system, some executable files, maybe some shared libraries, they probably
interface with system software like systemd or nsswitch.

The original book is far more grisly than the beloved Disney classic—and has an unsettling message about humanity.

Sending greetings to friends and family from places we visit has always been popular. Whether we text, call or just post something on social media, we love to let others know about where we travel and what we see there. Although we may associate tourism with…

Crossrail's tunnels under London are long, so long that when they were being planned, they were affected by something you might not expect -- the curvature of the earth.