I’m stepping down as maintainer of libxml2 which means that this project is more or less unmaintained for now. I will fix regressions in the 2.15 release until the end of 2025.

A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.

How I built a scrolling GIF mosaic for Battle of the Tech Bands: p5.js/WebGL, CRT shader, perceptual hashing, and NSFW filtering on GeoCities classics

Foundation models have revolutionized natural language processing through a ``train once, deploy anywhere'' paradigm, where a single pre-trained model adapts to countless downstream tasks without...

Going “full CSS Zen Garden” with modern CSS.

Minor Changes

Cats and Dogs, living together!

The bitter truth about people preaching taste with AI.

Learn how Linux containers are built from the ground up. Starting with the mount namespace and a root filesystem, see why PID, cgroup, UTS, and network namespaces naturally follow - and how this foundation makes concepts like bind mounts, volumes, and persistence…

Deal will see the two US groups co-develop chips for PCs and data centres, but no manufacturing partnership

Today’s collection is a grab bag of midcentury North American restaurant placemats. Most of these date from the late 1940s through the ’50s, when the postwar boom and expanding highway system put long-distance vacations within reach for a growing middle class…

How a gem was cut and then lost

The Perl and Raku Foundation announces a generous USD 10,000 donation from Geizhals Preisvergleich in support of the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. This funding enables critical bug fixes and security improvements that keep Perl stable and reliable for organisations…

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Grief gets an expiration date. Just like us.

I’m planning to write a series of posts about fast Fourier transform algorithms. This first post covers the Cooley-Tukey algorithm, which is the original and most well-known FFT algorithm.