From 1979 to 2012, Marion Stokes recorded her television 24/7. In total, she amassed about 71,000 tapes of archival footage.

Retro devices, like old game consoles and CD players, bring joy to people who are nostalgic. They allow them to revisit the past in today’s ever-changing tech...

Need to schedule tasks in PostgreSQL? Compare pg_cron for simple, in-database scheduling with pg_timetable for advanced features, complex workflows, and multi-cluster orchestration.

A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966

A C program that writes "hello, world!" to the console using inline assembly instead of standard library functions, demonstrating direct system call invocation.

Image courtesy of UC Davis. Photographer: Don EdwardsJust in time for cucumber season, some news that surprises me. Did you know that you should store cucumbers at room temperature?Credit for my enlightenment goes to UC Davis.

For hundreds of years, the tiny Kingdom of the Afro-Bolivians lay hidden from the outside world.

Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.

Nearly half of Irish jobseekers would refuse a job offer if there were no hybrid or fully remote working options offered, according to new research from The Stepstone Group, the parent company of jobs website IrishJobs.

Measures will impact more than 13,000 pupils in Southwark, and include confiscating phones used at school

by Felienne Hermans

A cartel of superstars has conquered culture. How did it happen, and what should we do about it?

In a vote along party lines, the National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass bill that funds the Department of Defense...

I've been reading Peter Seibel's excellent book, Coders at Work, which is a trannoscription of interviews with a dozen or so very well known and...

Mocking is an Anti-Pattern - ways for better tests without mocking

The DOJ accuses Adobe of trapping users in subnoscriptions.

A golden era for newsletters in the pre-Substack days.