One of the most interesting parts of my research was that I came to see the official indifference to the public's health as not a bug but a feature of this society. You see the elites routinely rejecting quarantine, and they spent very, very little money…

When it comes to serverless applications one principle rules them all: idempotency. This ability to rerun a function, make a REST API call, or process a message any number of times and ensure the same result is extremely hard to do reliably. In this talk…

💬 1  🔁 443  ❤️ 779 · The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard · Back in the early 80's, my dad worked at Storage Technology, a now-defunct corporate entity that made tape drives and pneumatic syste…

Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn't Asia have a printing revolution?

Constant Meiring - Technology Product Builder

Instagram has suspended Pornhub's widely followed account on the social platform.

“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of……

The same happened recently with my account, @Apple says it is associated with another terminated account, but I believe it’s not true, they do not share more details. I still didn’t get an answer for my appeal so I hope there is a chance they decide to reinstate…

On efficiency, hiring, incentivisation and how we confuse communication latency with analysis speed

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

A restoration of John Regehrs famous quiz on integers in C

High-temperature heat pumps are no longer just for idealists. They’re contributing to more than climate accounting, and industrial companies want to learn more.

None of these are Unix It’s true. None of the Operating System’s I want to talk about today are what We would call UNIX or Linux like Operating Systems. They might have similarities and…

Blog post — USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Saturday, forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt this week to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies.

Sitting in your underwear, hearing voices, talking to people who are not there, mumbling to yourself, Googling how to dispose of bodies and the firing rate of an uzi submachine gun. Assuming this sounds like the ideal life for you—and you don’t want to be…

And they hint at a future with vastly better products

Inspired by Aws Albarghouthi’s primer, I’ll give a little lecture on program synthesis for the last day of this year’s CS 6110. Here’s a code-driven introduction whose goal is to convince you that you too can synthesize programs.