I apologize for this noscript because there are many things that can make modern software slow. Blindly applying one explanation without a bit of investigation is the software equivalent of a cargo cu…

When will the leaves start changing? When will they peak? Our Nationwide 2025 Fall Foliage Map and leaf prediction tool has answers and progressive county-level predictions.

The stave churches were probably built by groups of highly skilled artisans specialising in the challenging processes involved.

Founders Made Dough, Participants, Bag Holders

A must-see interactive analysis of Celebratory Gunfire, including animations and projections on how far and how fast bullets travel

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may…

Expecting people to use less energy, consume less is an unrealistic way to think about solving climate change, says Bill Gates. Innovation is the answer.

Scientific Reports - Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages demonstrates closer resemblance to digital crude than digital gold

The GDB debugger has a long
history; it was first created in 1986. It may thus be
unsurprising that some GDB development happens over relatively long time
frames but, even when taking that into account, the existence of an open
bug first reported in
2007…

small balloon used as a children's toy

It doesn't matter what a PM at Google tells you; they'll rotate outwards after next perf cycle and it will be a new PM who will be utterly powerless to stop Google's mismanagement from shutting down the project you rely on.

You have to treat all non-core…

Short version: the full text of my Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages book (second printing, 1991) is now available. This page has more details including the table of chapters, and a link to the PDF (3.3MB, 448 + xvi pages). The book is a…

Lycoris Recoil is the surprise hit of 2022 thus far. A chaotic project that grew in an organic way with the arrival of its director, turning uncertain circumstances into the fuel for their bombasti…