Even though we often hear terms like L1, L2, cache block size, etc., most programmers have a limited understanding of what cache really is. This is a beginner-friendly primer on how cache works.

Taxpayers reached a human about 31% of the time this tax season, according to the agency’s own taxpayer advocate.

There’s a sort of breathless industry-specific fact in software that goes around every so often.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules state and local officials may take gifts and payments for steering contracts to grateful patrons.

Implementing an equivalent to the NixOS module system in Nickel

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The strongest open source LLM model Llama3 has been released, Here is how you can run Llama3 70B locally with just 4GB GPU, even on Macbook

A Kindle integration was a natural extension to my feed reader. I had to learn a couple of things to get it working, so it seemed interesting to document the implementation process.

I learned of a neat result due to Kevin Ventullo that uses group actions to study the structure of hash functions for unordered sets and multisets. This piqued my interest because a while back a colleague asked me if I could think of any applications of “pure”…

polyfill.io, a popular JavaScript library service, can no longer be trusted and should be removed from websites

My4TH project page. My4TH is a minimalistic Forth computer with discrete CMOS logic CPU.

Test Driven Development is often taught to improve a your workflow; I present Documentation Driven Development as an alternative approach.

These critters' unique mutations play tricks with physics.

This article describes a new level of fortification supported in GCC. This new level detects more buffer overflows and bugs which mitigates security issues in applications at run time

1975 live demonstration of the computer language APL (A Programming Language) by Professor Bob Spence, Imperial College London. Bob joined the staff of Imperial College in the 1962 and is now Professor Emeritus in EEED. His field of work has ranged from engineering…

Tracing GC is to Arenas what jelly is to peanut butter.

Bolivia President Luis Arce late Wednesday swore in a new army commander general after troops led by his predecessor stormed the presidential palace Wednesday in an attempted coup.

How to design the perfect chirp signal for distance and velocity measurement.

NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space