A tale of making a mistake in a distributed system that can lead to hard to recover incidents: The Thundering Herd Problem.

I spent most of my free time after work over the last month working on a project and today I'm giving up.

Website to generate color palettes in Okhsl and HSLuv color spaces - saneef/color-color

US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.

‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment … Limitarianism floats the heretical idea ...

For years now we’ve been covering the big ongoing fights between the US and the EU regarding the transfer of user data across the Atlantic. The main issue was that due to somewhat different data pr…

a mind-bending minesweeper game

Safety-critical applications oriented Real-Time Operating System written in Rust - n7space/aerugo

Return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks are hard to defend against.
Partial mitigations such as address-space layout randomization, stack
canaries, and other techniques are commonly deployed to try and frustrate
ROP attacks. Now, OpenBSD is experimenting…

A U.S. investigation into steering problems with more than 334,000 Tesla electric vehicles is a step closer to a recall.

I saw a Mastodon post that made me laugh this morning. It seemed sort of crazy that the html element wouldn’t have 100% support on CanIUse.com. Heck, I’ve been using it since 1994 and it worked just fine back then! This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole.

Compiler overhaul, stability improvements, and the road ahead.

Carl Weathers, former NFL player turned Hollywood actor who starred in the Rocky movies, dies aged 76

SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, xDC replica...

highlight.io: The open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Error monitoring, session replay, logging, distributed tracing, and more. - highlight/highlight

2012 independent video game

In a follow-up to his first article about Moses Schönfinkel, Stephen Wolfram looks for the whereabouts of Schönfinkel after 1924 through his family history.