It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines. As I think you can see for yourself below…

[This post is part of “A Bicycle for the Mind.” The complete series can be found here.] Don Tarbell: A Life in Personal Computing In August 1968, Stephen Gray, sole proprietor of the Amateur C…

The Missing Middle Path: What VCs Don’t Tell You

A Raspberry Pi Pico W–powered e-ink display helps this maker focus and stay on track with the demands of a busy schedule.

On using a new dataset and ensuring your analytic findings aren't a data reporting issue.

A multi-player tournament benchmark that tests LLMs in social reasoning, strategy, and deception. Players engage in public and private conversations, form alliances, and vote to eliminate each othe...

Foreign travel into the U.S. tumbled in mid-to-late March compared to the same time last year.

At the turn of the 21st century, Initrode Global's server infrastructure began showing cracks. Anyone that had been in the server room could immediately tell that its growth had been organic. Rackmounted servers sat next to recommissioned workstations, with…

If you want to use Gemini’s public API, but at the same time have a safe fallback in case you have exhausted the rate limits, you can use the OpenAI TS/JS library and a few helper functions. In my particular case I needed a type-safe solution for a chartmaker…

Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? The AEgIS collaboration, led by Professor Christoph Hugenschmidt’s team from the research neutron source FRM II at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)…

How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack.

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s extinct ancestors. Is the woolly mammoth next?

Explore Excel's bizarre date/time quirks—like “1/2”+1=45660—and how Quadratic fixes legacy issues with a modern approach to datetimes and spreadsheet logic.

I remember thinking at school when will I ever in my “real life” use maths.  Well much to my utter surprise I’ve come to the stark realisation that there is a link between mathematics and crochet. …

A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.

Taming distributed systems with DST.

Long seen as untouchable in Brussels, the GDPR is next on the list of the EU’s crusade against overregulation.