This blog post is going to be a cursory overview of the internals iMessage, as I’ve discovered during my work on pypush, an open source project that reimplements iMessage.

Right to repair and other efforts to liberate technology from monopolistic corporations is a precondition for winning many vital societal battles.

Tips, examples, and thoughts from an exploration of the world of fine tuning

Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them.

You won’t guess the result of that query

Nepal’s village landscapes were once dominated by bamboo and mud-walled houses and Tharu homes were decorated with beautiful mokha art. However, modernisation is killing this artform.

A couple who owned a controlling interest in a foreign corporation argue that a controversial Trump-era tax is unconstitutional under the 16th Amendment.

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The following is a conversation between Clyde Kruskal and Bill Gasarch. CLYDE:  Bill, a student, Ian Roberts,  asked me if there are any non...

Dropbase helps developers build and prototype web apps faster with AI. Dropbase is local-first and self hosted. - DropbaseHQ/dropbase

Since the release of my preprint with Tim, Ben, and Freddie proving the Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa (PFR) conjecture over $latex {\mathbb F}_2$, I (together with Yael Dillies and Bhavik Mehta) have st…

Trickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.

A note from the author
You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, noscriptd "Driver".


This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original…

The long read: When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice. This is the story of the most dramatic 72 hours of their lives