What do Docker, GitLab, and Red Hat have in common? Aside from various levels of participation in open source, they’ve all been punching bags over the past few years for non-paying users angry that they’ve taken some freebies off the table. When Docker had…

A tool to discover known security vulnerabilities in the Python packages installed on
a system or required by a project, called pip-audit, was recently
discussed on the Python discussion
forum. The developers of pip-audit raised
the idea of adding the functionality…

A sandbox tower-defense game.

Have you presented to company executives about a key engineering initiative, walking into the room excited and leaving defeated? Maybe you only made it to your second slide before unrelated questions derailed the discussion. Maybe you worked through your…

I feel like a pretty slow learner, which may be surprising coming from a self-taught software engineer, but it’s true. I regularly need to learn a new technology, software, or toolset. More often than not I feel like I’m sitting there staring at the wall…

"Days like today, I wish I was a business owner that was only money driven and didn't care about who he hurt along the way. But I'm not," Braden Wallake wrote.

Work in modern society is a torment, an affliction arising from the nature of the economic system, which could not be more antithetical to the way we labored for more than 95 percent of the 200, 000 years of Homo Sapiens’ existence. Our labor has become a…

Fully dockerized Linux kernel debugging environment - 0xricksanchez/like-dbg

Lead levels in backyard hen eggs are often much higher than in eggs bought in the shops. A new study of soil lead, chickens and eggs locates the high-risk areas in our biggest cities.

Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.

It's not "ego." It's a claim that you encounter a lot—an insult really—that people are buying bigger and bigger trucks to compensate for… so...

A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect?