When BuzzFeed’s microservice ecosystem began to outgrow their existing auth patterns, they faced a common conundrum: Build or buy a solution? They chose the former—and to share it with the world.

Opening up to past trauma is difficult but self-awareness is key to addressing issues that leave us vulnerable, says Gabor Maté

Turing was wrong: the halting problem may be decidable after all! Selecting programs at random from the space of Turing-complete programs we show that almost...

an online book using the Perl programming language to explore various aspects of programming language architecture

I have been asked an interesting question. Why does London’s Moorgate tube station have a mix of “traditional” bar-and-Circle roundels... and weird diamonds? Well... (1/6)

In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.

Hell is other people, with leaf blowers.

The special effects for the computer-display in the glider from John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981) are really neat. They're a neat wireframe display of the city, presumably from some kind of radar. https://t.co/o2kPgghoIJ

In days gone by businesses proclaimed “we’re gonna do Hadoop Jase!”, no word of a lie, they used to phone me up and tell me so…… my response was fairly standard. Now t…

Documents alleged to contain revelations on data and privacy controls that led to Cambridge Analytica scandal

It took the power of the internet to crack it.

America Online said Tuesday it will acquire Netscape Communications, a leading Internet browser company, in a $4.2 billion deal that sets the stage for a competitive tug-of-war with software titan Microsoft Corp.

Python package for earth-observing satellite data processing - pytroll/satpy

Tau Prolog: A Prolog interpreter in JavaScript.

After almost 7 years of developing and maintaining this project, I've decided that it's time to archive this (and all other) repositories in the Fine Uploader organization and effectively s...

There’s a scientific reason no one outside the South can nail them.

LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for how it is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not even clear how or why LinkedIn would know enough to make those…