Every time you configure a Java application’s heap size, you are essentially making a trade-off: spending more on infrastructure to improve performance metrics such as throughput or latency. Historically, this trade-off was visible when an undersized heap…

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the…

Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.

More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

Why the human touch is still required for 3D e-commerce.

Hydrogen fuel cell trucks exist. They work. The problem is everything around them: production efficiency, infrastructure economics, and a competitor called 'the grid' that's already everywhere.

I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.

I can trace this recommendation that swap should be twice the size of the physical memory as far back as 1989, see SunOS 4 installation manual, page 37, but I wonder if there was ever any technical

Zyora Server Inference Engine for LLM . . Contribute to Zyora-Dev/zse development by creating an account on GitHub.

New immigration rules for the UK are being enforced starting February 2026. This means citizens of 85 additional countries (including the USA and European countries) will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit, even for tourism. Luckily, you…

Some types of “forever chemicals” are aging men in their 50s and early 60s faster than at other times of life, a new study found.

Ever wondered why your “clean” polymorphic design underperforms in benchmarks? Virtual dispatch enables polymorphism, but it comes with hidden …

Weight limits, speed limits, fuel consumption at scale, and why trucks do the things that annoy you on the motorway.

A field guide to being right when it doesn't matter.

Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.