On corporate abuse of free and open-source software, particularly as it relates to GitHub's Copilot, and explaining why & how I began self-hosting my own code.

The East Bay's Non-commercial Voice

[Note that this article is a trannoscript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full…

The world's smallest ABS, developed based on motorcycle technology, makes eBiking even safer

The job of a Bike Hunter, the official noscript the company confers on some of its workers, is to track down stolen bikes.

Crash is a flexible robot control system for the creative programming of robot arms. Its aim is to facilitate rapid prototyping of new types of human-robot interaction, particularly in service of novel digital fabrication techniques. Development is motivated…

Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring

October 10, 2017

Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.

The U.S. has successfully tested a Raytheon air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, making it the third successful test of that class of weapon since 2013.

Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. - codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it:

I learned sometime ago that we should be doing
`python -m pip install ...` instead of simply…

Google announces its new Quantum Virtual Machine

Ruby and Python are quite similar but what makes Ruby more readable?

A custom-built CHIP-8 hand-held gaming console powered by a STM32 microcontroller. - GitHub - kurtjd/CHIPnGo: A custom-built CHIP-8 hand-held gaming console powered by a STM32 microcontroller.

How CockroachDB delivers fast, consistent reads in every region for read-mostly data. Understanding two-phase commit (2PC), uncertainty intervals, and how to deal with clock skew.