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.

Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against software maker Adobe and two of its executives, Maninder Sawhney and David Wadhwani, for deceiving consumers by hiding the early terminati

To ensure our mission always comes first, Proton is transitioning to a non-profit structure and formalizing our promise of people before profits.

Because of Swiss laws, there are no shareholders, and only one mission.

I present a simple algorithm for enumerating the trees generated by a Context Free Grammar (CFG). The algorithm uses a pairing function to form a bijection between CFG derivations and natural...

Though China built upon a foreign base of technology, it has become the world’s leading proponent of nuclear energy. Chinese firms are well ahead of their Western peers, supported by a whole-of-government strategy that provides extensive financing and systemic…

The chip stock will jump to about 21% from 6% in a $70 billion tech ETF once a new rebalance takes effect.

What if I told you that C has a built-in vector?

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext

htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable…

The author discusses the React 19 change that went unnoticed until last week that could potentially degrade the performance of websites that rely React.

Human ingestion of microplastics (MPs) is inevitable due to the ubiquity of MPs in various foods and drinking water. Whether the ingestion of MPs poses a substantial risk to human health is far from understood. Here, by analyzing the characteristics of MPs…

Policy makers need to understand how AI really works. Otherwise bills like SB 1047 totally fail to achieve their stated goals.

In April 2024, I found and reported two critical bugs to Sei Network concerning their layer-1 blockchain. One of these issues impacted the chain’s availability, and the other its integrity. The Sei Foundation awarded me $75,000 and $2,000,000 respectively…