A blog by sunfishcode

Days after a terrifying attempted robbery at gunpoint where a photographer wrestles with masked men to keep his camera gear, other photographers are speaking out, declaring they no longer will hold photoshoots in San Francisco.

Did you know that George Lucas was inspired by the kabuto of a Japanese samurai to create the famous helmet of Darth Vader, the main antagonist of the first Star Wars trilogy? This samurai is Date Masamune, one of the Lord of feudal Japan who had the most…

Departures come after smartphones wipe out 97% of market

Wall Street’s new robber barons can’t make the trains run on time.

Group-based conflict enacts a severe toll on society, yet the psychological factors governing behavior in group conflicts remain unclear. Past work...

Through 2022 it’s gotten harder to pass technical interviews, and it’s only going to keep getting harder because employers are gaining more leverage.

Clippings from 14 articles published between 1894 and 2022 all appeared in newspaper archives.

HAProxy 2.7 adds features such as Traffic Shaping, Stick Tables Sharding, Scalability Improvements, and Layer 7 HTTP Retry Updates.

Future.com hasn't published an article in months, and most of its editorial staffers have quietly left.

Redirect `.idk` domains using Wikipedia. Contribute to aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia development by creating an account on GitHub.

More car hacking!

Earlier this year, we were able to remotely unlock, start, locate, flash, and honk any remotely connected Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles, completely unauthorized, knowing only the VIN number of the car.

Here's how we found…

Learn about PyTorch 2.x: faster performance, dynamic shapes, distributed training, and torch.compile.

Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson