How a British-born hobbyist blogger became one of Big Tech’s punchiest critics

TL;DR: Most C++ and Rust thread-pool libraries leave significant performance on the table - often running 10× slower than OpenMP on classic fork-join workloads and micro-benchmarks.
So I’ve drafted a minimal ~300-line library called Fork Union that lands…

When a pursuit becomes a drag, here's some questions to help you figure out why, and what to do about it.

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

"If that bloody rope breaks, you're dead."

Legendary steeplejack Fred Dibnah demonstrates the art of installing a chimney scaffold at 200ft while trying to avoid "half a day out with the undertaker".

"When I've done it, when I've got all the gear up, to…

Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser

If you ever watch someone “coding”, you might see them spending far more time staring
into space than typing on their keyboard.

Apple paid a woman millions to prevent a lawsuit, but it could have avoided all of this if she’d just been able to repair her own phone.

Professional text tools including case converter and word counter. Clean, ad-free interface for content creators.

Baseboard management controller vulnerabilities make remote attacks possible.

We are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not.
This debate…

Technology solutions and open source projects by Red Dot Rocket

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

really bad minimal scheme compiler

PostgreSQL 18 was officially released on September 25, 2025. No doubt the most consequential change is the new Asynchronous I/O (AIO) subsystem. However, this p...