Euphemisms are like underwear: best changed frequently. What work are they doing in our language and why do they expire?

An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application. — Permify is now part of Fus...

A distributed lock pattern with Redis

Designing my own watch Last month a very special package arrived from Switzerland, containing my custom made wrist watch. I decided to sell all my big brand watches and have them replaced by something unique, tailored to my personal preferences. This is the…

SIMD in game development Often in game development we talk about SIMD. It is the holy grail of CPU performance, often out of reach. The conventional wisdom is that it is difficult to achieve real gains from SIMD.
It is tempting to build a math library around…

Today marks 6 years since Valve decided to change everything, especially for Linux fans, with the announcement of Steam Play Proton.

I calculated -915,000. Every headline said -818,000. I finally gave up and posted 818,000 but noted a discrepancy. I believe it’s 915,000.

I decided to leave what had been a promising career in organic chemistry about a year ago. Deciding to leave my program, and then to leave the field entirely, was one of the hardest decisions I hav…

Productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python. - taichi-dev/taichi

Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist

When working remotely, asking for help is often just a few keystrokes away. So it's tempting to "quickly" ask someone for support when you get stuck.

Self-hostable clone of lazydocker for the web. Manage your Docker fleet with ease - will-moss/isaiah

Recently I came across this 10 year old post by Robert Atkins: Objective C is like Jimi Hendrix . It is about reconciling admiration for Obj...

Project overview QEMU is a virtual machine which allows running an operating system inside of another. While there already is a Haiku port, it currently does not support any acceleration system through native virtualization (through Intel VT-x and …

Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems.

The Colorado River and its tributaries provide water for hydropower, irrigation and drinking water in seven U.S. states and Mexico. Much of this water comes from the snowpack that builds up over the winter ...

My personal (and very opinionated) tweaks to make a Windows 11 installation more bearable

A U.S. government report concludes that fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children.