With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things.

Learn SQL by creating a SQL database in JavaScript - weinberg/SQLToy

A recent release of Nickel added algebraic data types and pattern matching. This blog post explains the motivation behind this addition, the design choices made, the considerations around backward compatibility and how ADTs can be useful for a configuration…

Sometimes I just want to put pixels on a screen. I don’t want to think about SDL this or OpenGL that—I just want to draw my pixel buffer and be done.

September 4, 2024 – “To this day, when I read something that functions as a hinge in my life—a book that rearranges me internally—I won’t reread it.”

LLM chatbots can be engaged in endless "conversations" by considerably simpler text generation bots. This has some interesting implications.

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A renewed interest in private cloud is helping drive a 'massive increase in OpenStack demand.' Here's what else is at play.

Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this 'jumboization' surgery is becoming very common. Let's take a look at how it's done.

My new Rust binary search Good programmers use good tools, and binary search is one of the most important tools in your toolbox. That's why you shouldn't accept anything less than the very finest bin…

He stressed that cybercrime issues, such as gambling, prostitution and pornography websites, demand comprehensive solutions.

It'll bite you some day

Millions are rejecting the culture-war hotspots of the major social media sites in favour of apps dedicated to activities they enjoy, while bonding with their fellow users

There’s currently a significant amount of confusion around the full extent of the GPIO hardware issue in the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, with [Ian] over at [Dangerous Prototypes] of …

Battlestar Galactica Tech-Manual, the first and oldest web site dedicated to the technology, ships and weapons of Battlestar Galactica! ENTER!

Take a comprehensive tour through an early example of a globe-crossing sailing vessel from 1577. Not just an explorer, but also a pirate ship!

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Jacob O'Neal - Research, noscript, narration, 3D modeling / animation, music

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I composed the background…

Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context. But now, argues Owen Hatherley, it is…

Some researchers argue that the roles of social environment and personal choice have to be considered in order to make progress in treating people addicted to drugs.