The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

My grandfather, Dr Kornelis Sietsma was a Dutch Reformed Church minister in wartime Amsterdam. He preached in ways that offended the Nazi occupiers, and they deported him to the Dachau concentration camp, where he died. This was a fascinating family history…

Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser

In a life bookended by tragedy, Prince Nico Mbarga poured joy into music, including the most popular song in African history. But his own story has never been told — until now.

A cross platform lightweight single-header simple-to-use window abstraction library for creating graphical programs or libraries. - ColleagueRiley/RGFW

Yesterday John Graham-Cumming posted about
“Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question,”
and in the Hacker News discussion, among the
predictable “interview culture is flawed!!” complaints, there was some discussion of
whether binary search…

Musings about async await again and why I think virtual threads

Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser

Despite their central role in processing queries, parsers have not received any noticeable attention in the data systems space. State-of-the art systems are content with ancient old parser generators. These generators create monolithic, inflexible and unforgiving…

Quake 3 Source Code Review, Quake Live Source Code Review

In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.

CNBC spoke to a dozen customers caught in the Synapse fintech predicament, people who are owed sums ranging from $7,000 to well over $200,000.