programming, language design, and human factors

Innovations in engineered wood mean it’s now feasible to construct multi-story buildings without traditional materials.

When coding, it’s important to avoid distractions and learn to stay focused.

UC Berkeley’s College of Letters and Science will institute a change in policy, limiting students to enroll in only one “high-demand” major in fall 2023.

Today, we're announcing a change to Akka's license model so that Akka can be a thriving project for many decades.

Quake 1 game port to Apple Watch. Contribute to MyOwnClone/quake_watch development by creating an account on GitHub.

Peter Eckersley is not one of the most well-known names in the computer industry, but his contribution to modern internet and technology are notable. A computer scientist...

Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive. The archives of all the threads of people made on Kiwi Farms are gone.

WikiHouse is a digitally-manufactured building system that makes it simple for anyone to build beautiful, zero-carbon homes.

Nature Communications - While obtaining H2 from water splitting offers a promising strategy for renewable fuel production, current technologies rely on liquid freshwater. Here, authors use a...

The Bard Music Festival examines whether the arch-romantic composer was more modern than he seems.

I take a bike ride every morning, it’s a nice way to think about topics of the day. I’ve been wondering lately why software supply chain security has exploded in popularity in the last …

University of Liège researchers discover a new planetary system around a particularly small and cool star.

Give a note thanking customers for their purchase. They must be handwritten, but photocopies work just as well as originals. In experiments, they increased future customers spending 2x.

Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.