Even if you’ve been doing JavaScript for a while, you might be surprised to learn that setTimeout(0) is not really setTimeout(0). Instead, it could run 4 milliseconds later: Nearly a decade a…

This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last…

After months of debate, California lawmakers on Friday passed SB 79, a housing bill that overrides local zoning laws to bring high-density housing up to nine stories tall to transit hubs.

Yet another modal editing on Emacs / 猫态编辑. Contribute to meow-edit/meow development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just got word that the court dismissed several of WP Engine and Silver Lake’s most serious claims — antitrust, monopolization, and extortion have been knocked out! These were by far the most signif…

Windows 98 runs surprisingly well in QEMU via UTM SE, but it requires some care in setting it up. It’s a great way to run old 90s Windows and DOS software on your iPad (and Mac too, though you have… Continue reading →

skiftOS is a hobby operating system built for learning and for fun targeting the x86 platform. It features a kernel named hjert, a graphical user interface with a compositing window manager, and familiar UNIX utilities.

In my last post I talked about how I spent a week heads down using AI to work on a greenfield engineering metrics tool. As...

Learn how Upsun solved costly inter-AZ bandwidth billing by implementing dm-cache with local SSDs, achieving 95% read traffic reduction and 30x performance improvement.

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

“The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord,” a user said of the platform popular with video gamers, where tens of thousands are debating the nation’s future.

The Raspberry Pi is finding its way into more and more synthesizers. Do your synths have a slice of Pi inside? Read on to find out.

Hello everyone, I have great news to share: After three months of fighting, our Chatbox app is finally back on the U.S. App Store! 🎉 What happened? In April 2025, another company with an app of the...

Learn all about Java 25's new CPU-time profiler and why it matters in this weeks blog post from the creator himself.

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent