We have learned to fear plutonium – one of the world’s most useful materials. But as long as you don’t eat it, you’re probably safe.

I’ve made some modern games in retro style, and one thing people will always tell you is, make sure your pixels are the same size. When your base resolution ...

Agentic AI that helps you organize, write, search, schedule, and more with just a prompt

a framework used to create custom debian linux operating systems - clayrisser/linux-factory

A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.

How would you test PDF generation? This turns out to be unexpectedly difficult because you need to check that the files are both syntactical...

Unidentified Halo Unidentified Halo (2016) was a collaboration with Shir David reflecting on a pervasive surveillance culture and the use of facial recognition...

In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people.…

One interesting aspect of a computer's instruction set is its addressing modes, how the computer determines the address for a memory acce...

CMake has become a de facto industry standard as a natural ancestor superseding autotools. But is it actually an improvement? Personally, after spending signifficant amount of time with CMake projects, I’m inclined to conclude that no, not really. Below,…

Officials shield government abuses from litigation by claiming “national security.” The Supreme Court declined to weigh in.

You are most likely familiar with AWS Lambda and Fargate — Amazon’s serverless computing engines. At its nature, serverless computing introduces quite a challenging task requiring both tight security and great performance. For exactly that matter Amazon came…

The popular password manager LastPass faced a major attack last year that compromised sensitive data of its users, including passwords....

A cautionary tale about the secondary ticket market and the importance of reading the fine print.

In recent years, the number of employers offering sabbaticals has grown exponentially. In addition, many more workers, especially employees in managerial and professional roles, are taking their own unpaid sabbaticals when their organizations fail to offer…

If a single programmer builds something, it can be hard for others to maintain later.

Here's a sleeper prediction: a new crop of killer consumer apps are coming: self-hosted PWAs, and they will replace cloud services for many uses.