In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaize Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as…

Rails 8 eliminates Redis from the default stack. Learn how SolidQueue, SolidCache, and SolidCable replace Redis for job processing, caching, and real-time updates—powered entirely by PostgreSQL. Explore the true cost of Redis, how SolidQueue works, when it…

Curious exactly what happens when you run a program on your computer? Learn how multiprocessing works, what system calls really are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables.

On the surface of the ocean, the Battle of the Atlantic raged on with torpedo and depth charge.  Under the surface, there unfolded a different story.

Some numbers about the evolution of the Servo project and its community during the last years.

I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to…

Blog post: Is Rust faster than C? by Steve Klabnik

The top-secret story of why NUKEMAP switched from Google Maps to Mapbox+Leaflet.

Modern FOSS Compass and Navigation app without Ads, IAP or Tracking - CompassMB/MBCompass

SparkFun Electronics is an online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make your electronics projects possible.

A simple 1D-Pong game built with an ESP32 (WEMOS D1), a WS2812B LED strip, and two buttons - ogermer/1d-pong

Agents searched Hannah Natanson’s Virginia home and seized devices in inquiry tied to a classified materials case

When your favourite dress or shirt shrinks in the wash, it can be devastating, especially if you followed the instructions closely. Unfortunately, some fabrics just seem to be more prone to shrinking than others – but why?

A repository of all code from Introduction to System Programming in Linux, by Stewart Weiss - stewartweiss/intro-linux-sys-prog

VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.

Volgens de Autoriteit Consument en Markt worden kinderen in het spel gemanipuleerd om geld uit te geven.

There will still be digital checks on those starting a new job, but people will not need to hold a digital ID.

Emulating the unknown: Controlling Sewing Machines with a Game Boy