The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.

In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface.

Teams often confuse psychological safety with everyone getting along perfectly. I see leaders bragging about teams where nobody ever raises their voice, where meetings wrap up with everyone nodding…

: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

With VERT, you can quickly convert any image, video, audio, and document file. No ads, no tracking, open source, and all processing (other than video) is done on your device.

CSS data visualization framework

A new list of goods to be excluded from the latest round of tariffs on U.S. importers was released, and it includes smartphones, PCs, servers and other technology goods, many of which are assembled in China.

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

That content isn't going to rank itself

Don’t be fooled by this delicate drop of glass. It’s actually really hard to destroy.

Exploring SVG and its visual effects applications

This book, written by Protesilaos Stavrou, also known as ‘Prot’, provides a big picture view of the Emacs Lisp programming language.

Contribute to hanickadot/shorty development by creating an account on GitHub.

TypeScript's 1:1 validator, optimized from editor to runtime

Alexandru Ene features details of a new UI SDK in Rust for Prime Video that targets living room devices.

How “don’t innovate” will make open source AI coding tools win.