In today's computing ecosystem, I would very much be considered a cloud-native engineer. My first job in the industry saw me deploying cloud hosted platforms on Rackspace and AWS infrastructure, and I have been specializing in AWS ever since. To me, highly…

The once-thriving site used to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.

Embrace, extend, and ... port?

10 years ago today, Vue was introduced to the public for the very first time on HackerNews: https://t.co/M2ZRwhiIaP

10 years later, it is now one of the mostly widely used frontend projects, with a diverse community all over the world.

Prices are rising, but most drivers still have paltry coverage

ABSTRACT. A new generation of observatories is enabling detailed study of exoplanetary atmospheres and the diversity of alien climates, allowing us to seek evid

Experts clash over report suggesting fluoride can affect brain development

It takes 67 bytes to make one black pixel. How does it work?

These are not true Tissot’s indicatrices, which visualize a projection’s distortion by computing partial derivatives at specific points; instead, the red shapes are small circles of radius 2.5° (about km). This gives a more intuitive representation of areal…

If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people

Heading into Paris in the comfort of a big car may become an expensive exercise, with drivers facing parking fees in excess of €100 ($108) for just a few hours of shopping or errands.

A deep dive into the world of vector networks, and the engineering challenges involved in their implementation.

Simple demo illustrating remanence of data in RAM (see Cold boot attack) using a Raspberry Pi. Loads many images of the Mona Lisa into RAM and recovers after powering off/on again. - anfractuosity...

Ethiopia's Transport and Logistics Ministries have announced that automobiles cannot enter the country unless they are electric. (!)

hint: Apparently the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation does not actually say that you can launch a conventional rocket into orbit around an arbitrarily large and massive body.

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It’s been a weird week for America’s most valuable company—a firm whose tech products have such consumer goodwill they got away with forcing us to listen to...

I’m doing a self-taught DIY MBA (read more). Here’s my work-in-progress reading list, add anything you think I’m missing in the comments.