Adventures with rotary phones and asterisk. Contribute to mnutt/rotary development by creating an account on GitHub.

A Hackernews comment introduces a new character

a language trying to be flexible about expression, but strict about state - refaktor/rye

A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day...

I saw a screenshot a few days ago that made me think Windows 7 Beta might actually be worth checking out.







That's right, Microsoft finally improved the calculator app! We've been complaining for years that Microsoft ships new operating systems with…

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

How can you give passengers more space without reducing seat count? In theory, the only way is up. But what are the true prospects for bunk beds returning to the skies?

“Team 0%” is struggling to clear “Trimming the Herbs” before an April 8 server shutdown.

I am emphatically not an audiophile. My home contains neither $500 ethernet cables nor "acoustic isolation platforms." I am absolutely not here to convince you that vinyl recordings sound inherently...

The recent announcement of the discovery of three new Aztec codices is covered here for the English-speaking public.

Objective This study aimed to explore the global burden of early-onset cancer based on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 study for 29 cancers worldwid.Methods and analysis Incidence, deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and risk factors for…

The Driest Place on Earth

The approach was fun, but has fallen out of favour

Earth’s tremors can tweak your GPS coordinates.

The cloud you own. Hardware, with the software baked in, for running infrastructure at scale.

The slow writer embraces the protracted and unpredictable timeline, seeing it not as fraught or frustrating but an opportunity for openness and discovery.