The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.

August 16 was an especially big day for this island of stability

YAGNI

Astronomers have found a star that has a magnetic field rivaling the strongest magnet humans have ever built.

Photoshop maker Adobe's co-founder John Warnock died on Saturday aged 82, the company said in a statement early on Sunday.

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

How could a book about the Maui, Hawaii fires be written, edited, published and up for sale on Amazon already? About once a week I peruse Amazon for new books and releases. Imagine my shock when I came across a completed book on the August fires in Maui already…

“That’s clearly left !” 3D hearing is a learned skill where your brain deducts the direction that a sound is coming from based on …

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements—A Review

My understanding of the expansion of space itself is very shaky,
but if space itself is expanding,
then shouldn't very very distant objects appear magnified?
For example these James Webb Space Tele...

Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project

Track real-time and historical electricity data worldwide — see production mix, CO2 emissions, prices, cross-border exports, and much more.

An announcement from Nivenly about Kris Nóva

Ellen DeGeneres’ 2014 Oscars tweet got its picture back, but most others are still broken.

All of physics can be condensed
in 9 short lines. The 9 lines contain all equations and all observations of modern physics.

The Unix shell is pure wizardry. Why shouldn’t it be as easy to write systems programs in Go as it is in the shell? The noscript library is the secret spell-book that makes this possible.

YouTube announced Tuesday that its newest update disables all its video recommendations for users who have their watch history turned off, solving an arguably annoying problem for those who may not want to be bothered by a sea of suggested videos.