Using Purchasing Power Parity, you can offer a fair pricing based on your user’s location. Here I explain what it is, then I show you how I implemented it on my course’s selling page using serverless functions and a little bit of React.

With official Thunderbolt 4 certification, the Framework Laptop has the most Thunderbolt ports on the market!

Phylum uncovers a new campaign targeting Python developers. Malware authors surreptitiously replace cryptocurrency addresses in developer clipboards.

A little while ago, I wrote a thread on glitch.social about ephemerality of posting on social media as compared to Usenet. It got a little bit of traction, and one person asked if I could post more about Usenet clients. I haven’t gotten to it until today…

Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.

LiteDB : LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store database in a single data file.

Myocarditis and pericarditis are potential post-acute cardiac sequelae of COVID-19 infection, arising from adaptive immune responses. We aimed to study the incidence of post-acute COVID-19 myocarditis and pericarditis. Retrospective cohort study of 196,992…

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

How to disable heap (dynamic memory allocation) in an embedded application? This article goes into the details of linker files and how to detect dynamic memory allocation.

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Nature - As interest in academia fades, scholars in PhD and master’s programmes are dubious about the value of their degree in advancing their professional lives, finds Nature survey.

IntroductionIf I am running some software, written by me or someone else, on a server, such as a DigitalOcean droplet, the aim is to always deploy it via docker. On my server, I want a single large do

The search engine that kept up at the speed of blogging created a “search war” with Google. But eventually, the speed of blogging just wasn’t fast enough.