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<p>A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite your application from scratch, or is that “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”? Turns out there are more than two options for dealing with a mature codebase.</p>

I've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyond, and we're excited. But the project encounters reality, shifting priorities, or budgeting constraints, and the work never goes anywhere. It always feels…

Abstract. Are the best-paying jobs with the highest prestige done by individuals of great intelligence? Past studies find job success to increase with cognitive

An ascent through the four levels of the ARPANET protocol hierarchy.

Khepri is a tree-like replicated on-disk database library for Erlang and Elixir. - rabbitmq/khepri

Back in 2017 I wrote an article in which I attempted to explain how YouTube works under the hood, how it serves streams to the client, and also how you can exploit that knowledge to download videos from the site. The primary goal of that write-up was to…

Nothing is as desired as much as the thing you want but can’t have.

Tiny11 uses 8GB of disk space, compared to 20GB+ for the standard install.

Not well-known in many parts of the United States, candlepin bowling is mostly found in New England and nearby parts of Canada. The aging alleys are held together with "duct tape and bubble gum."

OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so. - LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

A system developed at MIT can efficiently capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide even from ambient air, and release it in pure, concentrated form. The carbon capture work was led by Sahag Voskian and T. Alan Hatton.

Here’s a defense against bacterial infection that you might not have heard of: “nutritional immunity”. It’s been known for a long time that bacterial and protozoans have easier access to some vital nutrients than they do to others, and that one particular…