While the Saturn had a variety of great controllers and peripherals, a vast majority would agree that the 3D Analog Control Pad was perhaps one of the greatest. Dreamcast also touted several of its…

In a 1967 letter to the number theorist André Weil, a 30-year-old mathematician named Robert Langlands outlined striking conjectures that predicted a correspondence between two objects from completely different fields of math. The Langlands program was born.…

The Texas Department of Public Safety asked the state's Attorney General to prevent the public release of body camera footage in response to a public records request from Motherboard.

I started this blog on June 12th 2002—twenty years ago today! To celebrate two decades of blogging, I decided to pull together some highlights and dive down a self-indulgent nostalgia …

Investigating the (aspartame → phenylalanine → dopamine) theory

This article reviews what kinds of compliance certifications and regulations exist, what they mean for developers, and how to begin the certification process.

Many people seem to have the impression that everyone in ancient Rome suffered from lead poisoning because the Romans used pipes made of lead. Indeed, many people seem to think that this was a major contributing factor in the decline of the Roman Empire.…

What comes next will set the path for the world economy

Photos of chickens, taken by chickens. Featuring special guests.

LUMI is the first pre-exascale supercomputer of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and is now Europe’s most powerful supercomputer. It will be inaugurated on Monday 13 June 2022 in Kajaani. LUMI offers European researchers a world-class tool for understanding…

While the US is increasing its EV charging infrastructure, North Carolina Representatives have opened a war against free chargers.

Back in 2007 my buddy [redacted] wanted to buy the domain name f*cktube.com as we were adult webmasters at the time. He was out of luck. A quick WHOIS search revealed that "f*cktube.com" had already been registered on GoDaddy. This was at a time when adult…

I used to be a pathological overthinker. Everything had to be carefully planned, from the words I would say to the baker to order a baguette to all the insignificant details of any of the projects I worked on. Is it better to tweet at 18:00 or 18:05? Rust…

The long read: Official policy in the UK and US – unlike in many other countries – is to never make concessions to kidnappers. Those taken sometimes die as a result. Is it time to rethink?