April 30, 2024. I decided to dedicate a week to migrate our main project at work (a multiplayer mobile game server in production for over 4 years) from Scala 2.13 to Scala 3.
May 7, 2024. I gave up. The removal of several features from Scala 3 (macro...

Refactoring is great and most developers should refactor more, but there are times when it is not appropriate. Ironically, if you’re aware of these, you may find yourself refactoring even more often than before.

Visual tool to explore SQLite databases page-by-page, the way they're stored on disk and the way SQLite sees them. - QuadrupleA/sqlite-page-explorer

Was this the key to speaking in the afterlife?

A self-hosted API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots. - goodreasonai/ScrapeServ

Realtime Fascism is an automated system that tracks and analyzes news headlines against historically confirmed steps toward fascism in the United States.

Shall we have a game of transfinite Nim? One of us sets up finitely many piles of wooden blocks, each pile having some ordinal height, possibly transfinite, and the other of us decides who shall ma…

Applying the ideas of Deepseek R1 to computer use. Contribute to agentsea/r1-computer-use development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Microsoft build of Go 1.24 ships with many new FIPS-140 related features. Here's a closer look at the upcoming changes.

A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, whose access to Treasury payment systems was approved by a judge, has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics.

Frank Lloyd Wright was an outspoken advocate for low-density cities without skyscrapers. With this in mind, it’s hard to believe the tower design pictured above came from Wright. It’s called The Illinois , and it was planned to be a mile (1,609 meters, or…

Methods and Strategies for Building and Refining Reasoning Models

We talked with the designer behind games such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging and Leather Goddesses of Phobos.

Par (⅋) is an experimental concurrent programming language. It's an attempt to bring the expressive power of linear logic into practice. - faiface/par-lang

Hold California accountable. Check out AB-410: Bots: disclosure.

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

Nonverbal behaviors such as posture, gestures, and gaze are essential for conveying internal states, both consciously and unconsciously, in…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.