In the previous article, we discussed our use of Apache Arrow within the context of the OpenTelemetry project. We investigated various techniques to maximize the efficiency of Apache Arrow, aiming to find the optimal balance between data compression ratio…

The global population milestone of 8 billion people represents nearly 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.

Apple has updated the Game Porting Toolkit, with version 1.0.2 of the development tool now working at a higher level of performance when running Windows games on a Mac.

At this point, most developers use Git as a tool for collaboration. We have our
rote-learned commands to pull, commit, and push. And of course, there's that
one coworker who knows a bit more about Git than
everyone else, who helps get us back on track whenever…

The year was 2019, the place San Diego. I was attending KubeCon on behalf of my then-employer, VMware. Kubecon is the Kubernetes Conference; If you don’t know what Kubernetes is don’t worry about it. It’s just a computers.

I tended to tweet a lot at conferences…

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At first, it appeared to be a freighter conversion of an Airbus A320 (known as the A320P2F). But upon having a closer look at the engine, it looks like a PW1100G, which would imply t...

📚 Functions and algorithms implemented purely with TypeScript's type system - ronami/meta-typing

[Note that this article is a trannoscript of the video embedded above.] On April 20, 2023, SpaceX launched it’s first orbital test flight of its Starship spacecraft from Boca Chica on the gulf coast of Texas. You probably saw this, if not live, at least in…

Today the demoscene was accepted as Dutch national intangible cultural heritage. We very happy about the success of the Dutch demoscene to be accepted as a living national cultural heritage! The Dutch innoscription is continuing the success story of the demoscene…

On Monday, the global average temperature was the highest it’s ever been. It was even hotter on Tuesday.

Who is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of network resources?

Renewable power generation in the first half of 2023, with a share of 57.7 percent of the net electricity generation for public power supply, was significantly higher than in 2022.

A completely random event based text game. Simply make your choice at the beginning of each month and see if you can graduate in time. All outcomes are determined by the random number generator and do not take them seriously. Sometimes the RNG can be brutal…

Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carbon footprint in half. The invention, called LionGlass and engineered by researchers at Penn State, requires significantly…