This article focuses on tasks that application programmers are likely to encounter, particularly in web applications, such as reading and writing text files, reading text, images, JSON from the web, and more.

You’re writing lua, you want to serialize and deserialize data, and you want to pick the best format/library pairing for the job. What’s good? I’ve been doing some testing to find out. Here’s the short version: If you want the fastest option and you can choose…

LISP engine that's tiny enough to fit in a 512-byte master boot record

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Strengthened by a June Supreme Court decision undermining the regulatory authority of federal agencies, opponents intensify their legal offensive--this time against net neutrality. The decision could profoundly alter digital life and commerce.

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On March 27, 2024, a study published in the journal Nature announced that the sugarcane genome had at last been cracked. This was a remarkable achievement because of the complexity of the sugarcane's ...

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I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it is: Having accelerated after Putin's invas...

A new pathway that is used by cancer cells to infiltrate the brain has been discovered by a team of Canadian and American research groups led by the Singh Lab at McMaster University. The research also ...

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The scientific community generally agrees on the theory, introduced by Riemann and
furthered by Helmholtz and Schrödinger, that perceived color spa...

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Hanon Pro is an app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that helps improve your keyboard and piano technique with repertoire and exercises modernized for the digital age. Just like health and fitness apps track your physical health over time, Hanon Pro does the same…