In the post-COVID era of online assessments, “homework help” sites have been accused of becoming industrialised cheating factories — and it's making them rich.

Professor Maynard taught students about life at the margins of society. Now he is charged with a crime his field is only beginning to understand.

Three years ago, while I was a web developer at YouTube, one of the senior engineers began a rant about the page weight of the video watch page being far too large. The page had ballooned to as high as 1.2MB and dozens of requests. This engineer...

To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.

I had meant to post on this some time back and forgot. I don’t altogether like plug cutters much, but good quality ones work well in drill presses (pillar drill UK). It’s the drill press that’s the problem more than anything. Often when I need a plug we don’t…

Recent improvements in artificial intelligence have generated speculation about whether, someday soon, the way that new technologies are developed may be fundamentally altered. Contemplating the possibilities of such a novel paradigm shift in one of the key…

Even if it’s hard to be commercially successful from TikTok, the platform changes the role of audio in culture.

TCP proxy for simulating variable, yet predictable network latency :globe_with_meridians::hourglass_flowing_sand: - kffl/speedbump

I'll admit that I didn't see this one coming: Retraction Watch is reporting that the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC), the world's main repository of small-molecule crystal data, is on the way to pulling nearly a thousand deposited crystal structures…

If transit systems want to attract more riders, they need to find ways to speed up the journey to work. See how the times compare in your metro area.

Although it may not be considered an “old” computer, a TI-83+ from the futuristic year of 1999 has a lot of appeal. It’s got a Z80, it runs a BASIC interpreter with machine-language program support, and lots of fun homemade games were built for it over the…

How did Kubernetes push git to its limit? Some stories from my time (2016-2019) working on Kubernetes.

No atomicity across subprojects – In 2016, Kubernetes was still a monorepo. Everything was developed in a single repository. This meant that developers…

Botany is disappearing from university modules in the UK.

An introduction to the metadata stored as EXIF data within a digital photo, from what it is to how photographers can use it to grow.

By late 2019, VCs had poured over $2 billion into so-called micromobility upstarts. Fast-forward a few years, and it’s apparent this bet hasn’t gone particularly well. We take a look at what happened.