Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics

I’m excited to announce that Airplane is being acquired by Airtable, an app building platform that connects teams through shared data.

We started Airplane to democratize access to software tooling, and we found Airtable to be a fantastic match to continue…

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Recently I came across a puzzling fact: the International Criminal Court hashes electronic evidence with MD5, even though MD5 is badly broken. So, why are lawyers using broken, outdated technology? The answer involves the common law system, cultural isolation…

Including me

A look into how American Express decided to use Go for some of its most critical applications.

Certain specimens of the endangered Asian arowana have fetched up to $300k at auction. How did a fish become a status symbol?

The National Labor Relations Board said the rocket company had wrongly dismissed eight people for a letter raising concerns about the chief executive.

The sudden slowdown in electric car sales is a symptom of a much uglier problem.

T-Deck is a pocket-sized gadget with a 2.8-inch, 320 x 240 pixel IPS LCD display, a mini keyboard, and an ESP32 dual-core processor. While it's not exactly a smartphone, you can use your programming knowledge to turn it into a standalone messaging device…

Thanks to all of you who helped me recover my music.

Update Jan 4: Wow, this thing really took off! 1BRC is discussed at a couple of places on the internet, including Hacker News, lobste.rs, and Reddit.
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Freetype, included in the font stack on Unix, is quite complex. There are so many layers to get it to do what it does that it's easy to get lost. From finding the font, to actually rendering it, and everything in between. Like most of the world, I use a rather…

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