WTF moment: Why my native OS refuses to return a "True" value.

I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …

Lessons from a Postgres → Elasticsearch pipeline

Compilers can take advantage of some very specific instructions

Finalist #7 in the Review Contest

Researchers have successfully used CRISPR gene editing technology to create a fungi strain that is highly efficient, more nutritious, and significantly more sustainable than its natural counterpart. The fungus Fusarium venenatum already stands out for its…

A Modern Embedded SQL Database written in Rust. Contribute to stoolap/stoolap development by creating an account on GitHub.

Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.

A month after I started my first Bear blog at , my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent reason:



I have since migrated to (you ar...

Karl Bushby is expected to finish his globe-walking expedition by September 2026.

76/300 Pocket Dobson: a tiny yet real telescope that comes with you everywhere

Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast

I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.

A fast and safe service between Styria and Carinthia: That’s the Koralm Railway. It’s part of the new Southern Line in Austria and one of the most important infrastructure projects in Europe.

Just a handful of companies can make cadmium zinc telluride, a material with powerful properties.

A summary of the techniques in place to protect my git forge

Arti, the Rust rewrite of Tor, brings circuit isolation and onion service improvements in its 1.8.0 release.

One of the coolest patterns in SQLite—store raw JSON documents, create virtual generated columns using json_extract, add indexes, and query JSON at full B-tree index speed.

Understanding how search engines transform text into tokens through character filtering, tokenization, stemming, and stopword removal.