After a long period of silence about the Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG), there is now certainty: This morning, the Bundestag passed the HinSchG in a slightly modified form in its second and third readings.

It rained and rained and rained.

The North Shore Leader says it exposed the new Congressman’s exaggerations before he was elected.

Only a few months ago, lambdas were added to both Excel & Google Sheets, advancing spreadsheets from formulas to true functions. What would it take to get the world’s biggest programming paradigm to the next level, to the meta-programming of Lisp?

I believe…

Open source FAT filesystem for embedded projects

Design-by-Contract's invariant attribute allows you to enforce important properties of systems and data structures, making it an incredibly useful tool for developers. In this blog post, we'll be exploring the development of a GCC plugin that adds support…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state's lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices, state Attorney General Todd Rokita announced.

Can AI Image generation tools make re-imagined, higher-resolution versions of old video game graphics?

Over the last few days, I used AI image generation to reproduce one of my childhood nightmares. I wrestled with Stable Diffusion, Dall-E and Midjourney…

This year for the first time, I completed Advent of Code. It’s 25 fun little programming exercises, or at least that’s how it starts out.

Spurred by federal mandates and incentives, U.S. manufacturers are pushing forward with developing new battery technologies for electric vehicles. The holy grail is a battery that is safer, costs less, provides longer driving range, and doesn’t use imported…

It's slow, expensive, the engineering is mostly port-a-potty chemistry, and the best-case outcome is that thirty years from now we’ll get to watch someone remotely operate a soil scoop from Mars instead of Pasadena

Orrery (Earth, Moon, and Sun): This Instructable describes the design and construction of an orrery – a clockwork mechanism depicting the motions of celestial bodies. This particular orrery is a type of "tellurion" because it features the Earth, Moon, and…

The MK1 Knee! I wonder why this one wasn't used, in the original MK2 he just did one kick, however strangely enough Baraka had a feature for a double kick mini-kombo, I wonder if he was meant to have something like that as well...

LastPass has claimed that it would take millions of years to crack a user's master password, but a rival company claims that the process won't take nearly that long, and could be done for a mere $100.

This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990-2019, we document the historical association between teen suicides and the school…