Google recently published a blog article and paper introducing their SIMD-accelerated sorting algorithm.

SIMD stands for single instruction, multiple data. A single instruction is used to apply ...

When talking about WebAssembly, one of the things that often confuses people is the lack of a great analogy for the various platform targets that WebAssembly supports. This ends up being a bit important as it dictates whether your WebAssembly code will (not)…

My friend Zyni pointed out that someone has been getting really impressively confused and cross on reddit about empty lists, booleans and so on in Common Lisp, which led us to a discussion about what the differences between CL and Scheme really are here.…

As you may recall:
• MIT partly hosts W3C, but withdraws Dec 31
• A W3C nonprofit needs to take over on Jan 1
• MIT has assets (dues, contracts, IP…) to transfer to new W3C
• I was elected to the W3C Board & in the negotiations

Two weeks from cutover it's…

What the management theory “forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning” can teach us

Never ever ever use pixelation as a redaction technique - BishopFox/unredacter

The one-kilometer residential complex Corviale, in the suburbs of Rome, was designed in the 1970s as a solution to population growth and urban sprawl.

Get root on macOS 13.0.1 with CVE-2022-46689 (macOS equivalent of the Dirty Cow bug), using the testcase extracted from Apple’s XNU source.

A series of photos from 2014 of the University of Waterloo steam tunnels.

A button that takes you to a random 'funny' website from the 1990s,
or what's left of it in the Internet Archive, at least.

You can do it snek! Play in your browser

Thanks to 2129 contributors from 616 organizations resolving 4083 issues in the past two and a half years, Drupal 10.0.0 is available today! This new version sets Drupal up for continued stability and security for the longer term. All new features will be…

A self-updating list of the most current useragents across operating systems and browsers

Steve Jobs handling a tough question at the 1997 Worldwide Developer Conference. He had just returned to Apple as an advisor and was guiding sweeping change at the company. The full video is here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iACK-LNnzM - this interactions…

When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.