Reflections on whatever I'm thinking about that week (the web, culture, computer graphics, math etc)

Technology news about "progscrape blog" from Hacker News, Reddit, and other programming sites.

Mathematicians show that graphs of a certain common type must contain a route that visits each point exactly once.

I am an advocate of regenerative farming . But I’m not a farmer myself. The piece of land I steward is 1/3 acre — still sizable for an urban lot, but laughably minuscule compared to what Real Farmers are working with.

The Edo-period pursuit of wasan, Japan’s domestic tradition of tackling mathematical problems, was one involving samurai and commoners, young and old alike. Historical records reveal that women and teens were taking on difficult problems well before Japan…

The women of ancient Rome took to the streets in protest in 195 BC. It was a striking manifestation of their power in what was a rigidly patriarchal society.

Secret documents reveal plans for extensive data retention and encryption backdoors.

A Tokyo City Hall site offering counsel and general info for potential lovebirds is already online, and a dating app is in development for later this year.

Event-driven architecture is great, but it can cause a lot of headaches if it is used for the wrong purpose.

The first clinical trial to administer gene therapy to both ears in one person has restored hearing function to 5 children born with a form of inherited

The CHERIoT RTOS scheduler is a fairly traditional RTOS scheduler. A typical desktop or server OS tries to ensure that all threads run, but that higher-priority threads get larger slices of available compute time. It may also try to ensure that interactive…

A new trial conducted by the University of Oxford reveals that sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, enhances blood flow to the brain and improves the function of brain blood vessels in patients at a

Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems.

With US detainees being held in Russia, Gaza, and Venezuela, VF embedded with the team tasked with gaining their freedom.

While the SVG format gives us a way to morph between two paths with the same number of points using `<animate>`, we can use a few tricks to morph between arbitrary paths too!

Web3 developer Brian Guan lost $40,000 after accidentally making his wallet keys public on GitHub.