Over a year ago I wrote a piece noscriptd ‘Terraform should’ve remained stateless’. Here’s my self-critique of that post, with what I know now.

In the mythology of open source, programming languages are created by people who seemingly have no direct economic function. They are just really good at compilers (somehow) and have a house to live in (somehow) and have a lifetime to devote to creating a…

With the constant flood of new "social media" sites, Quora adds itself to the list of sites you can't trust. If you've never went there . . .

How to count various languages, with recordings for some of them.

Staff at CD Projekt Red are uniting with others in the Polish video game industry to unionise.

A YouTuber called Moore’s Law is Dead recently leaked a couple AMD slides about Zen 5. I typically find leaks uninteresting as they are impossible to verify and often don’t correspond t…

People at the top of their professional games are thought to be quite self centered and sure of themselves. But one of the best-known tech figures of all time had a remarkably poignant take on

Amazon today announced the general availability of Bedrock, its service that offers a choice of generative AI models from Amazon itself and third-party partners through an API.

The SP80 and Syroco teams have both got their remarkable boats on the water. Looking like a pair of alien spaceships, and pulled by ultra-fast kites instead of sails on masts, both these machines are built to reach terrifying, unprecedented speeds.

Alternative IP Camera firmware from an open community - OpenIPC

Cats have attained evolutionary perfection

Hunting spurious illegal instructions where there were none on AMD Ryzen 7950x for months compiling OpenSource packages with GCC (for https://t2sde.org), I finally found this regular user-land code causing some pseudo random speculative execution state corruption…

Stephen Fry spoke at the CogX Festival in London last week. During that talk, he played a video clip of a WOII documentary narrated by his voice.

Ferrocene enables Rust to be a first-class language for mission-critical- and functional-safety systems at the highest security levels.

The much-anticipated 20 Year Needs Assessment was released 2.5 days ago. It’s embarrassingly bad, and the reason is that the MTA can’t build, and is run by people who even by Northeaste…