The ISC is the best place on the Internet to play Scrabble in a relaxed friendly environment. You can compete at your own level while meeting new people and making friends from around the world.

Fresh 2.0 is very much still active. Here’s an update and how to try out the alpha.

it’s too hard

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases.

Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.

The 2025 TLA⁺ Community Event was held last week on May 4th at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
It was a satellite event to ETAPS 2025, which I also attended, and plan to write about …

Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.

Make your AirTag more efficient against thieves

Is Ruby a true parallel language ?!

Years ago, I worked on reimplementing some Python code in Rust and needed to adapt Python’s dynamic reflection capabilities (aka __getattr__) to the strict and …

🦀 a colorful music making program for your linux terminal 🦀

Refactoring some Clojure code that implements an order-1 word-level Markov text generator.

How to test for leap years (until year 102499) in the proleptic Gregorian calendar with just three 32-bit instructions, with detailed explanation of the bit-level tricks.

They discuss interface design and Raskin's hatred of the mouse.

As consumers begin to use AI agents to do their shopping, retailers are trying to figure out how to market to bots in addition to humans.

You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…

: Failure could've triggered a small explosion