"Use the right tool" is nice in theory, but not when the tool acts a bit differently from machine to machine, and isn't always installed.

One day, I ran into SwissTable—the kind of design that makes you squint, grin, and immediately regret every naive linear-probing table you’ve ever shipped.
This post is the story of how I tried to bring that same “why is this so fast?” feeling into Java.…

The goofy star of Mary Poppins becomes a centenarian on Saturday. And what a precocious performer he has proved, sustaining scrappy mischief through seven decades of mainstream entertainment

I intend to find out

This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecessarily pit programmers against designers, but it also limits our vision of what we could be doing.…

Systematic price monitoring sheds light on economics of online manipulation

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Putting FreeBSD’s “power to serve” motto to the test.
On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to one of my web services being unavailable. All HTTP requests failed with a “503 …

Loved reading through GReg TeChnoLogY Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s and seeing the list of los...

: Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems

We have hundreds of easter-egg logos (featuring our friendly mascot Dax Brown) that surface when you make certain queries on our search engine. Our subreddit is trying to catch ‘em all. They’ve certainly caught a lot, currently 504, but we keep adding more…

Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students meet an AI competency requirement starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.

A former Dyson engineer is rolling out a revolution for household chores in deprived communities after inventing an off-grid washing machine

Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and final…

We will explore how we can use an Android E-ink tablet (or any tablet) as a monitor for Linux computer

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