Investigators identified 16 human-caused fires on the Mescalero Apache Reservation near Ruidoso. They linked six of the fires to a couple, including the destructive Salt Fire.

Hi, I'm Lex (they/them)
I made a very silly fax service.
In the video it is running on York Hackspace's internal phone system.
It also ran at EMFCamp 2024 on the copper telephone network.

Source code is here: https://github.com/lexbailey/compilerfax

Enjoy…

1. Listen to the birds. That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they...

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.

Let's design some procedurally animated animals!

This video is a tutorial/explanation for a simple procedural animation technique I recently learned about. Essentially, it's animation rigging using a 2D chain simulation. I provide an animated explanation…

Digital audio processing is a complex yet fascinating subject. Getting a deeper understanding requires knowledge in multiple technical disciplines, including physics, electrical/electronical engineering, and some software engineering when it comes to parts…

I've always wanted to understand color theory, so I started reading about the XYZ color space which looked like it was the mother of all color spaces. I had no idea what that meant, but it was created in 1931 so studying 93-year old research seemed like a…

Supplemental video for the SIGGRAPH 2024 Best Paper "Repulsive Shells" by Josua Sassen, Henrik Schumacher, Martin Rumpf, Keenan Crane.

For more information see https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/RepulsiveShells/index.html

Abstract: This paper develops…

Visual programming and textual code should co-exist next to each other, not replace one another

Poorly designed laws are forcing global firms to leave.

Last year we rebuilt our well-loved Stamen basemaps from scratch, re-creating them on a totally new tech stack in partnership with Stadia Maps. This was a bittersweet and challenging process, trying to build new styles that matched the aesthetics of the old…

For decades, people have tried to bring mass production methods to housing: to build houses the way we build cars.

Officials seized documents from NSO Group in effort to stop handover of information about notorious hacking tool, files suggest

When I recently interviewed Mike Clark, he told me, “…you’ll see the actual foundational lift play out in the future on Zen 6, even though it was really Zen 5 that set the table for that.” And at that same Zen 5 architecture event, AMD’s Chief Technology…

All good things must come to an end. I've decided to end the Funtoo Linux project. Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to move on to other things.…

Tailscale's CEO, Avery Pennarun, explores the future of the internet, discussing the evolution of networking, the issues with today's complex systems, and how Tailscale is simplifying connectivity for developers with a new, more efficient approach. Discover…

The course provides a systematic framework to understand the most challenging issues in sustainability in the real estate industry. It examines economic mechanisms, technological advances, business models, building design, and investment and financing strategies…