For more than 50 years, his identity has remained as maddening a riddle as the ciphers he once sent police. but now an L.A. novelist-turned-amateur sleuth may have finally cracked the case

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If…

More than 81,000 people have been laid off from the tech sector worldwide this year, including thousands at Canadian companies like Shopify and Wealthsimple, and further cutbacks are likely

A painting of macOS Big Sur in HTML, CSS and JS

A deep dive into the physics of skateboard trucks & their flaws, and speculation on why some issues have never been fixed.

lessons in UI design from an industrial supply company.

The trick to understanding awk in all its terse glory is to understand its defaults. Most solutions you see in the wild are a clever symphony of awk defaults stacked on top of each other. In this post, I break down one of the most popular one-liners which…

Despite its ‘hellish’ environment, scientists argue there are good reasons to focus on ‘Earth’s sister’

When I joined Yahoo In 2008, I received a small number of options. I don’t remember how many–it was very few–but I do know my strike price was roughly $16. I don’t remember that because my strike price was particularly lucrative, but rather because some of…

With the new year upon us, I decided it was time to do something ambitious for my Open Source project. This is where I normally quip about never mentioning my project before, even though I literall…

Meet the Subcontrabassoon!

Documents show that in the '60s, the sugar industry funded Harvard researchers who, examining risk factors of heart disease, dismissed concerns about sugar and doubled down on the dangers of fat.

A conversation with Jeremi Gosney

The British pound briefly plunged 4% to a record low against the dollar.

Their drinking habits have seen them derided as ‘generation sensible’, but this overlooks the complex and nuanced reasons people are turning their back on alcohol, writes Eve Upton-Clark.

No art. No statement. Just money.