With Direct File, the U.S. government built a free tax-filing tool that stands up to traffic and receives high marks from users.

Technology is enabling increasingly fast times but how fair is it when it impacts marathon runners so differently?

A new way to create silence.

In the spirit of FreeBSD Day 2024, we spoke with Tara Stella, a distinguished architect with a long history in open source development. With three decades of experience, Tara's transition from Linux to FreeBSD is inspiring and insightful. A Legacy in Open…

Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64 - stenzek/duckstation

Social organization in Massachusetts, US

Why I didn't become a full-time creator/educator

turkish language has a gossip tense. if you haven't witnessed an event yourself, you use gossip tense to emphasize that what you say may not be accurate, that it's hearsay. there's a cultural element too: if you use any other tense, people would judge you…

ACF helps customize WordPress with powerful, professional and intuitive fields. Proudly powering over 2 million sites, WordPress developers love ACF.

We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org.

A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in…

In the 1920s, Los Angeles officials built miles of sandy beaches to attract tourists to their city. A century later, ecologists try to bring wildlife back to those barren beaches.

Ticketmaster and Live Nation have destroyed the concert experience. But it didn't use to be this way. Today, Oasis and Taylor Swift tickets might go for thousands of dollars, but back in 1955, you could see Elvis Presley in concert for less than the modern…

I spent 48 hours in Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine under relentless siege from drones. Civilians are being targeted non-stop, and I went on the ground to uncover how and why this is happening. During my time there, I was chased and possibly tracked by…

At work-work the system uses, for historical reasons, a lot of SystemV shared memory. The SysV shared memory API has C functions like shmat(2). There is also a different shared memory API, POSIX shared memory, which has functions like shm_open(3). For reasons…

The current state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence is impressive, especially in terms of mastery of language, but not so much in terms of mathematical reasoning. What could be missing? Can we...