An in-depth overview of some of the unusual and very advanced technical tricks used in the Commodore 64 game, Seawolves.

I just finished Oliver Sacks’ excellent Everything in Its Place. In it, he mentioned as an aside that the Ginkgo biloba tree is hundreds of millions of years old, and its phenotype has been practically frozen since then – a living fossil.

A terminal UI for tracking everything about your home. Single SQLite file. No cloud. No account. No subnoscriptions.

This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons.
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a terminal weather app with ascii animation. Contribute to Veirt/weathr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations…

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An interactive data journalism piece exploring the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer, with population simulations, risk factors, and prevention information.

The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict

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