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.
For folks to show-case non-Java solutions, there …

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…

Health org that previously promised it learned its lesson on transparency will ███, ███, and ███

Software engineering salaries come from one of 3 budgets. Which budget pays your salary shapes your day-to-day and influences your career trajectory

Why ornament matters in architecture

Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM has issued instructions to ISPs to block shadow library Anna's Archive following a complaint by publishers.

The papers of Alan Turing and Donald Bayley relating to the Delilah project, a wartime collaboration seeking to develop a speech encryption system, including Turing's mathematical proofs and Bayley's trannoscriptions of Turing's lectures on electrical circuit…