One of the most valuable experiments I ever ran was intentionally practicing the skill of making close friends, and this directly led to most of my friends today. This post is the story of that experiment, and distills the lessons learned

Today, the Oceanic+ app comes to Apple Watch Ultra, turning Apple’s most rugged watch into a fully capable, easy-to-use dive computer.

A brain region known as the amygdala could play a key role in predicting symptom improvement following ketamine therapy in patients with treatment-resistant anxious depression, according to new research published in the Journal of Affective Disorders. ...

A powerful new class of large language models is making it possible for machines to write, code, draw and create with credible and even superhuman results.

An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine. - drwhut/tabletop-club

Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.

The “no kill” product cultivated from animal cells has only small regulatory hurdles left before it can be sold in restaurants

Every desktop computer or mobile device comes with some form of “appstore”. There is F-Droid for Android. Debian has “software repositories”at its core. T...

Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…

Electronics and microcontroller projects

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the early Model T Fords and their tricks. Only one page in the current catalogue of Sears, Roebuck is devoted to …

A curated directory of 1200+ Mac menu bar apps. Small apps to help you become more productive and maximize your workflow with MacOS.

MIT researchers can now control the physical and mechanical properties of lab-grown plant materials. This could enable an environmentally friendly process to produce wood-like structures with specific properties, like stiffness or density, tailored to certain…

As of C++20, we have four keywords beginning with const. What do they all mean? Are they mostly the same? Let’s compare them in this article.
const vs constexpr   const, our good old fried from the early days of C++ (and also C), can be applied to objects…