To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.

'The Long Tail' was supposed to boost alternative voices in music, movies, and books—but the exact opposite happened. What went wrong?

Technology work has moved far past the idea of the code monkey or button pusher. If we are truly knowledge

Can we get a little more speed from a 6502 than we did last week? Almost certainly.
The memory test we used was a general-purpose one. It’s flexible and reusable. The price is some speed. Let’s try and make it faster.
The test machine for this one I’m going…

Sometimes people criticize the youth of today for their failure to launch into adulthood. They think those stuck in prolonged adolescence are lazy, soft, and unambitious. Other people lay the blame at the feet of the mothers and fathers of these young adults.…

Ministers are desperate to sign new trade deals after damaging the UK economy with Brexit

This keyboard inputs characters in 8bits.

Eight toggle switches are used to enter ASCII codes bit by bit.

To achieve operation similar to that of a regular keyboard, it has a function to stock up to three input keys and a key lock function to keep the…

An overview of 4 theories

I didn’t think I’d say this, but I think Google is failing. Well, failing as best they can for making $68 billion dollars in revenue in a quarter. Failing at their mission. Here’s the thing that made me write this - I used to load up Google News a lot, I’ve…

The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time, which is infinitely more valuable.

Archaeologist Mate Parica was examining satellite images of Croatia's coastline when he spotted something unusual.

Changing the Crayola-colored maps.

Most frogs can jump and land with the precision and grace of an Olympic gymnast. And then there’s the pumpkin toadlet.

Update: This post got a sequel, Breaking our latin-1 assumptions. I’ve seen misconceptions about Unicode crop up regularly in posts discussing it. One very common
misconception I’ve seen is that code …