In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned…

(Foreshadowing: I found a bug in MacOS X 10.6's fcntl(F_SETLK) locking that
could cause corruption of sqlite databases. To see if your syst...

Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology.

Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups

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It all started with an email.

A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game

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Extension for Visual Studio Code - VS Code Extension for Nogic

I just can't help feeling these training wheels are getting in the way of my bicycle commute.

Two large structures that once were key to NASA's successes in orbit and at the moon have fallen back to "earth" at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.

We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down.
Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t…

A deep dive into an OpenJDK commit that replaced slow /proc file parsing with a single syscall, revealing obscure Linux kernel internals and a 20-year-old optimization opportunity.

Blog post by Marciano Planque: EOL

AI for Formal Mathematical Reasoning

How I reverse-engineered GitHub node IDs to avoid a database migration and discovered their dual ID system along the way.