Platonov is one of the greatest of Russian writers—not least for the characters he brought into the world. He deserves to be more widely read

Is GuardDuty all you need for AWS threat detection? We’ve asked our friend Rami McCarthy to dive into GuardDuty’s performance and consider the potential place for Canary Infrastructure.

To me, a classic JRPG is pure mechanism, a kind of puzzle. Was there some way of getting the fun out of building such a mechanism—of solving that puzzle—, wrapping it with the minimal amount of functionality, the simplest thing that could possibly pass as…

Can I make math operations run 100x faster on really, really big numbers?

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of replies to email that I’ve sent are “reactions”.

Pete Wells is moving on from his role as the Times restaurant critic, a job with many rewards and maybe too many courses.

Command line utility to make you a magician in the terminal - guywaldman/magic-cli

The ultimate online source for carefully edited texts of non-Shakespearean Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline drama; find fully annotated versions of all our plays as well, so you can enjoy and understand the greatest literature of the greatest period of…

Compensating people to care for their grandchildren may seem absurd at first, but there are good economic reasons for it.

Free Introduction to Bash Scripting eBook. Contribute to bobbyiliev/introduction-to-bash-noscripting development by creating an account on GitHub.

This article explores JDK 21's virtual threads, comparing their performance with Open Liberty's thread pool. It covers key findings like throughput, ramp-up times, and memory footprint. Despite advantages, virtual threads showed unexpected performance issues…

AI phishing is all over the headlines and that’s not going to change. Learn about the capabilities of the dark side of gen ai, and how to defend against it.

A couple of years ago I was asked to give a conference talk about software security. Well, actually I wasn't really asked, my company bought...

Spaced repetition is complicated in hierarchical bodies of knowledge, like mathematics, because repetitions on advanced topics should “trickle down” to update the repetition schedules of simpler topics that are implicitly practiced (while being discounted…

Calling employees back to the office can have meaningful effects on intent to stay, discretionary effort and engagement but, notably, it shows NO effect on performance.

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