When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation of metal, steel, concrete, glass, wood, and plastic to find the optimal geometry that bears loads with the minimum cost of material. 

Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.

This is the english version of our story on Commodore 64 masters.

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle…

This is an experiment of rendering honey like fluid. / TSL / WebGPU

In the comments on my recent post on books on the history of maths Fernando Q. Gouvêa jumped in to draw attention to the book Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Othe…

My journey making a Sudoku variant that doesn’t have rows or columns

A book about the history, use, and importance of logarithms

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AI agent expert in PostgreSQL. Contribute to xataio/agent development by creating an account on GitHub.

Software engineer Charity Majors challenges the "10x engineer" myth, arguing that true productivity lies in team performance, not individual brilliance. She encourages building workplaces where "normal" engineers can thrive. Are we focusing too much on hiring…

C plus Prolog. Contribute to needleful/c_plus_prolog development by creating an account on GitHub.

New DNA research shows that half the human beings alive today are descended from the Yamnaya, who lived in Ukraine 5,000 years ago.

YC sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump Administration to support Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Since you’re reading this essay, you probably already know about the mathematical holiday called Pi Day held on March 14th of each year in honor of the mystical quantity π = 3.14…. Pi isn’t j…

A few years ago, we bought a church building. Since then, every time I mention it online and/or on social media, someone always responds, “wait, you bought a church, what” and then asks…

We prototyped an interprocedural static analysis tool using sparse conditional constant propagation.

The US health-care system spends as much on billing and claims processing as it does on treating cancer.