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.

Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres. Contribute to pgvector/pgvector development by creating an account on GitHub.

Many companies blame their mass layoffs on an economic downturn, but Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer says simple copycat behavior is also at play.

On the Carthusian monks' decision to limit production of their famed liqueur and what it says about quality and scale in our soul-crushing modern world.

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Unfolder is a 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft.