An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens of usually submerged rock formations with carvings of human forms that may date back some 2,000 ...

The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.

Have you ever dreamed of being a castaway? There’s an industry to cater to your desire.

Nature - A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.

Injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), located in the knee, are typically thought to be caused by acute traumatic events, such as sudden twists. Led by Penn State researchers, new work analyzing ...

Languages that suffer success often have to do so by selling out and adding features that go against some of the original purposes of their design. SQL is a...

For years, macOS upgrades have broken Nix. We've updated the Determinate Nix Installer
to ensure that this no longer happens, eliminating yet another annoyance for macOS users.

Financial Independence / Retire Early (FIRE) Calculator for the UK

I originally posted this on Reddit so I could get a good sample of opinions from other engineers to see how they compared to mine before…

Using TestFlight is a great way to help developers test beta versions of their apps.

Whether you call them rotaries, traffic circles or roundabouts, they offer a safer alternative to the four-way stop. But the modern roundabout has been decades in the making.

From JavaScript to Rust, three years in.

(Posted for the whole Steering Council.) As we’ve announced before, the Steering Council has decided to accept PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) . We want to make it clear why, and under what expectations we’re doing so. It…

Explain complex systems using visuals and simple terms. Help you prepare for system design interviews. - ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101

Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>