Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where it goes after that remains largely unknown. But a new ESA Discovery study reported in Nature Communications has proven the concept of monitoring floating plastic litter…

Slack's engineering team recently published how it used a large language model (LLM) to automatically convert 15,000 unit and integration tests from Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL). By combining Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformations and AI-powered…

self taught, creator of @kisslinux . dylanaraps has 71 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

A year ago I walked out of the office for the last time. I handed in my corpo laptop, said some good-byes, and since then I have been my own boss.
This first year has been funded by an NLnet grant, which I’m in the midst of wrapping up. As of now, the work…

Link to: https://oatmealdome.me/blog/why-dolphin-isnt-coming-to-the-app-store/

Beyond velocity and acceleration: jerk, snap and higher derivatives, Eager, David, Pendrill, Ann-Marie, Reistad, Nina

The birth of the second calf, a female, has surprised even her own mum.

Helium leaks and thruster problems have prompted NASA and Boeing to delay the astronauts’ return on the company’s Starliner vehicle.

In 2023, rightsholders submitted 2.6 million complaints to French authorities against users suspected of pirating content on BitTorrent.

The history of every major galactic civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Wh…

As a resident member of the EEVblog Test Equipment Anonymous support group, I have picked up my fair share of old test equipment boat anchors, but my knees buckle at broken recently manufactured oscilloscopes in the sub $200 range. In this case, the Agilent…

Arvind, a longtime MIT professor and leading scholar in computer architecture and programming languages, has died at 77. He transformed research in computer architectures and parallel computing, enabling faster and more efficient computation.

Knitting, the age-old craft of looping and stitching natural fibers into fabrics, has received renewed attention for its potential applications in advanced manufacturing. Far beyond their use for garments, knitted textiles are ideal for designing and fabricating…

Two days after his company's downfall, Austen Allred wrote:

I wish people could see how ugly it is to be envious, and how obvious it is to those around you when that's what's happening.

There's not much uglier than trying to tear someone down because they…