In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually warm – with lessons for how we can heat our own homes better.

As coding agents make software cheaper and lower quality, we're moving toward disposable software, and that changes everything about how we architect systems.

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.

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M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) [Back to the homebrew computers page] The M8SBC-486 is a 486 homebrew computer motherboard made from scratch. From the schematic and PCB to the chipset! It is not based on existing designs, but rather on my experience with…

ExtraBar is a customizable bar for macOS with deep links, quick actions, and app-specific shortcuts. Take control of your Mac workflow.

Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.

A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish. - kip-dili/kip

Back in the day, light mode wasn’t called “light mode”. It was just the way that computers were, we didn’t really think about turning everything light or dark. Sure, some applications were often dark (photo editors, IDEs, terminals) but everything else was…

A practical guide to ignoring security updates responsibly

I sometimes read commentary about large software companies and notice a recurring pattern. People correctly identify real characteristics of large organizations, criticize them, but show little appreciation for why those characteristics exist in the first…

Increasingly more organizations are reviewing their dependencies on foreign software and IT services from countries like the US. One broad necessity for many organizations is sending automated ema ...

Lawmakers in Washington are once again focusing on kids, screens, and mental health. But according to Congress, Big Tech is somehow both the problem and the solution. The Senate Commerce Committee

Xous is a microkernel operating system designed for medium embedded systems with clear separation of processes. Nearly everything is implemented in userspace, where message passing forms the basic communications primitive.

The code is not the point, but what if it’s the reason?

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

The circular economy might spiral into Sam Altman's garrote.