The philosopher’s First World War notebooks reveal a soul in torment, but was fighting on the front line really the making of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers?

A few times a week, someone asks on the #gui-and-ui channel on the Rust Discord, “what is the best UI toolkit for my application?” Unfortunately there is still no clear answer to this question. Generally the top contenders are egui, Iced, and Druid, with…

Death becomes you swiftly but it’s messy making your way back

Proposed Benchmarks Aimed at Giving Public Faster Broadband Service

For the first time temperatures of 40°C have been forecast in the UK and the Met Office has issued the first ever Red warning for exceptional heat.

A look inside the process of character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto.

UPDATE 2: I have made the noscript longer because people seem to be insisting on misunderstanding me, giving examples where the only reasonable thing to do is to escalate an Err into a panic. Indeed, such situations exist. I am not advocating for panic-free…

A big chunk of Fuchsia-related code has been removed from Android, but Google's operating systems are still set to be intertwined.

Request for assistance (Pls RT): Unfortunately the recovery email for my account @academicssay was entered incorrectly and it was hacked today, now tweeting ads as @adidas_web3. @TwitterSupport has also rejected multiple appeals to regain access. Any help…

There is strong evidence to support recommendations on alcohol consumption varying
by age and location. Stronger interventions, particularly those tailored towards younger
individuals, are needed to reduce the substantial global health loss attributable
to…

Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject type system.

Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover

Sadly, Porn by Edward Teach, M.D. (AKA The Last Psychiatrist)—A Review

Some moons ago, I took part in an RPG based on Plato’s Republic run by a philosopher. [...] And it fell to me, a person vehemently against capital punishment, to not only prosecute history’s most famous philosopher (as played by an actual philosopher) but…

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This review and commentary was originally written in 2022, and I stand by every word! Over a year later, after lots of community comments and with the release of the Freewrite Alpha, I’ve had some more thoughts.