Simon is the creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django web framework. Formerly he was a JSK journalism fellow at Stanford, and prior to that an Engineering Director at Eventbrite.

DuckDB has fully parallelized range joins that can efficiently join millions of range predicates.

A five-minute talk for Ignite Long Now

Nature - Results suggest that vaccines offer less protection against lingering symptoms than expected.

Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies

San Francisco saw by far the biggest percentage drop in population among major U.S....

advanced distribution of the GNU operating system

What do you do when you cannot copy text between computers due to lack of internet connectivity? I built a modem using the Web Audio API, allowing data transfer via audio.

Four puzzle solutions reveal different ways to divine someone’s hidden number with impossibly little information.

RED is suing Nikon for infringing on its video compression patents. The lawsuit was filed in California yesterday (PDF file): GENERAL ALLEGATIONS Since at least 2006, RED has been and continues to be actively engaged specifically in the design, development…

The web scraping open project repository aims to share knowledge and experiences about web scraping with Python - TheWebScrapingClub/webscraping-from-0-to-hero

Welcome to Knots 3D! Our comprehensive library features over 200 animated knots with step-by-step tutorials that transform complex rope work into clear, easy-to-follow instructions that work for complete beginners and serve as a quick reference for experts.…

Oversized pickups and SUVs are exacting a deadly toll on urban streets. Here’s how one US city plans to push back.

Scrum has given us a lot, but its time for some conscious uncoupling

The incident in San Francisco cost first responders valuable time, and underscores the challenges Cruise and other companies face in launching driverless taxis.

Growing up, the only thing that put me off while learning software development, was the common occurrence of people who cared more about one…