The first-ever NixCon
in North America was co-located with
SCALE this year. The
event drew a mix of experienced
Nix users
and people new to the project.
I attended talks that covered using Nix to build Docker images, upcoming changes
to how NixOS performs…

Thoughts and more by Tom Lingham

A month ago, I flew from London to NYC, paid $3500 for a Vision Pro headset at Apple Fifth Avenue, and flew back home. I’ve been using it every day since — here’s what I think. My background, for context: I’ve been working in AR for many years. I built...

Almost all projects I've worked on have noscripts we wrote to automate a repetitive process. Consecutively, the majority of the noscripts became obsolete and unmaintainable after some weeks, because we either didn't need them anymore or they have become too complex…

WhatTheDuck is an open-source web application built on DuckDB. It allows users to upload CSV files, store them in tables, and perform SQL queries on the data. - GitHub - incentius-foss/WhatTheDuck...

This subject offers an interactive introduction to discrete mathematics oriented toward computer science and engineering.

Podman version 5.0.0 has been released! It is our first major release in two years and includes several new features and significant changes. Podman version 5.0.0 is a very important release for Po…

The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside tells a story of England’s dwindling congregations – and highlights the loss of a vibrant community life that cannot be replaced.

Bluesky started inside Twitter. Now, it’s competing with X, Mastodon, and Threads to push a decentralized vision for social networking.

This is a write-up of a presentation on generating music in the waveform domain, which was part of a tutorial that I co-presented at ISMIR 2019 earlier this month.

Scientists are exploring how tuning the genomes of mushrooms and molds can transform these food sources into gourmet, nutrient-packed meals made with minimal processing and a light environmental footprint.

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Memes, in order of appearance: Tiny Paper Senior Chang, Trollface Rage Comic, Nerdy RF Mixer, 69-420, Sanic Gotta…

Everyone is John is one of the shortest, most fun Table-Top/Pen-&-Paper Role-Playing Game (RPG) around.

Talk is cheap, show me the code
Introduction A common problem my friends and I have is receiving actionable emails whose priorities are medium level. They do require action of some sort ($ \geq lowest\ priority$), but the action is due in the near future…