Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?

I have lived in IRC for about 7 years. What I mean by this is that IRC has been my primary hub for reading information online and interacting with people and systems. I don't use an RSS reader, I visit Twitter and Facebook only ...

The hardest problem in durable execution, as in many areas of infrastructure, is safe updates.

Cluster Crashes, Battling Complexity, Scaling, Power Of Helm, Tracing & Observability, From Self-Managed On AWS To Managed On AKS, And More

What happened to Pitchfork

The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true.

Here’s the original source of the story: https://archive.is/2024.01.30-203406/https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/kriminalitaet-die-zahnbuersten-greifen-an-das-sind-die-aktuellen-cybergefahren-und…

A throwback to the early days of 16-bit Windows.

Pika is a pretty good blogging platform built by the good people at Good Enough.

Since vintage computing is supposed to be a spiritual experience, I point out that today, February 3, 2024, the Torah reading for this wee...

It's like jq, tail, less, grep and awk merged together and available in a clean UI. Self-hosted, single binary.

By extracting metallic iron without producing carbon dioxide, the new process could even be carbon negative, at least for part of the world’s iron production

A Blog post by Timothy Alexis Vass on Hugging Face

Earth’s acoustic environment has been profoundly altered by noise, but it’s not too late to change course.

Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

Gaming is a culturally ascendant entertainment format, but gaming companies are struggling to take advantage of the rise of the medium. Among the recent series of gaming layoffs were a cut of 530 staffers at Riot Games and a cull of 1,900 Microsoft employees…