Proper support for sum types or tagged unions have become table stakes for systems programming languages. However, they can incur a lot of memory fragmentation that's not trivial to avoid without good support for metaprogramming. This post goes into Zig's…

If you're considering building a homemade billing system for your SaaS company, there are a few things you should be aware of. In this article, Qonto's first billing engineer shares four lessons he learned while working on this project.

How to create and leverage embedded Linux in small FPGAs using MicroBlaze

Unlike nearly all other arts, architecture is inherently public and shared. That means that buildings should be designed to be agreeable – easy to like – not to be unpopular works of genius.

U.S. military is on the hunt for an F-35 fighter jet that has gone missing after an incident in South Carolina.

U.S. government recommendations for protein intake haven't changed in over 40 years. Scientists say they need to be increased.

U.S. government recommendations for protein intake haven't changed in over 40 years. Scientists say they need to be increased.

Scores of people in India's capital have seen their homes demolished over the last few months

We have heard you. We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused. We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an…

Wiz Research found a data exposure incident on Microsoft’s AI GitHub repository, including over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages – all caused by one misconfigured SAS token

If you build a state machine on top of a relational database you can abstract concurrency problems away from your business logic and allow developers to write safe-by-default code without dealing with concurrency concerns. This post explains how to build…

Two-parent households should be a policy goal.

One of the world's biggest ecological experiments reveals that replanting logged forests with a mixture of seedlings accelerates recovery.

A widespread misconception in much of psychology is that (a) as vertebrate animals evolved, “newer” brain structures were added over existing “older” brain stru...

Signed book: Atomic Energy in the Coming Era by David Dietz. Sixth printing. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.25 x 7.5, 184

🍾🥂The Final Numbers Are In! The collaboration between us, @9GAG & @cj_quest was a gigantic success & we sold 5,449 WinRAR licenses! I'll let you do the maths for the rest... Thank you to everyone who participated and joined the family!🥳🕺

On September 14, the final day of the 2023 legislative session, the California Senate finally passed Senate Bill 362. Also known as the "Delete Act," the new...