Plastics that can metabolize in oceans are highly sought for a sustainable future. In this work, we report the noncovalent synthesis of unprecedented plastics that are mechanically strong yet metabolizable under biologically relevant conditions owing to ...

Your birthday twin is probably reading this right now. Because math.

Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli,…

An expose on Implicits and Local Coherence

The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.

Netlify has reached 5 million developers! Travel through the journey to see how we got here and where you played a role (pun intended) in our story.

Less than a month after four towering dams on the Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of salmon made it into waters they have been cut off from for decades to spawn in cool creeks.

A video editor tool that lets you create, edit, and transform videos by generating FFmpeg commands.

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish.

P2P terminal game about spacepirates playing basketball across the galaxy - ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky

Whether you have to do with data in the form of CSV, JSON or a full-blooded programming language like C, JavaScript, Scala, or maybe a query language like SQL, you always transform some sequence of characters (or binary values) into a structured representation.…

How Dostoevsky’s Crafted Timeless Art

Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives.

A magazine on a floppy from 1986.

A 192-channel phased array microphone, with FPGA data acquisition and beamforming/visualization on the GPU. Phased arrays allow for applications not possible with traditional directional microphones, as the directionality can be changed instantly, after the…

America is in toy overload, and it might just be ruining fun.

The deficiencies of the Unit Sphere and an exploration of Lie groups.

This post is the first in a new series covering some of the reasoning behind decisions made in my project to build end-to-end encryption for direct messages on the Fediverse. (Collectively, Fedi-E2…