Commonplace Newsletter #89

This guide explains how to use our WireGuard servers that run entirely from RAM. The following WireGuard servers have no disks in use, and are booted with our own STBoot bootloader.

It can be challenging, but the rewards are enormous, and you don’t have to be rich to be an ocean voyager. By Sally Howard

If you thought cookie pop-ups were an annoying nuisance, just wait until you have to scan your face for some third party to “verify your age” after California’s new design code be…

Opinion - NZ's first climate adaptation plan provides a robust foundation for urgent nation-wide action and there are five key areas that need sharper focus Bruce Glavovic writes.

The Peter Principle states "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence". The mind behind the Peter Principle, Dr Laurence J Peter explains some of the observations that informed his theory, and has some advice for those of you…

A python library for univariate regression, interpolation, and smoothing. - brendanartley/Regressio

As we've been building Mach engine, we've been using a neat little pattern in Zig that enables writing flag sets more nicely in Zig than in other languages. Here's a brief explainer.

Animated live map of the Berlin city trains

Multi-disciplinary research has revealed that electrically conductive contact of the human body with the surface of the Earth (grounding or earthing) produces intriguing effects on physiology and health. Such effects relate to inflammation, immune responses…

⚡ Decompilation Tools and High Productivity Utilities ⚡ - badamczewski/PowerUp

Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman says crisis is of 'unimaginable proportions' as death toll rises to 1,136, with more feared dead in mountainous north

We put a lot of effort into developing an experimental browser extension that could meet all the requirements of Manifest V3 (Chrome's new extension API) and block ads properly within its tight confines. Read the article to find out what we went through and…

The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy computer games. The first game was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971...

upper-atmospheric experiment performed by NASA in 1962

Watch Live Click here to watch tonight’s program live!  Before the Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Python, Java, and Objective-C, there was Smalltalk.  50 years ago this September, Smalltalk, which ultimately revolutionized personal computing, graphical…