Building a web application in Python, JavaScript, Node, then Python again.

It started as a joke, but after finishing it, I started thinking about the impacts technology has on me and what actually matters.

An innovative mission on the Welsh border, funded by an anonymous private investor, has begun work to create a ‘permanent human settlement’ under the sea

What can Apple do in the face of a UK order to weaken encryption worldwide? Decentralize iCloud, to start.

A fully customisable and commented kaleidoscope project made in JavaScript...

A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.

New page, old policy.

A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file - desgeeko/pdfsyntax

Nature - A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity.

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

Announcement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and denoscription of the new data on AI use in occupations

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

UNSW researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth’s most remote and fragile continent.

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago.

Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms).
This is a variety of yak-shave that I do somewhat routinely, both professionally…

Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.

Audio trannoscript There are some readers here who will understand the import of the statement above and not believe it, and there are others who are not in a position to understand it all. For both …