It's hard to believe, but in many ways 2018 was, actually, the best year to be alive yet for the average human on Earth.

programming, aviation, hot takes

The state’s limits that bar anyone who is not registered as a professional engineer in Oregon from describing themselves as an engineer violate the First Amendment, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman ruled.

Earlier this year, Netflix was seen testing a bypass of iTunes billing across dozens of markets worldwide. As 2018 draws to a close, Netflix — the App Store’s top grossing app — has ditched the ability for new users to sign up and subscribe to the streaming…

Let’s Encrypt had a great year in 2018. We’re now serving more than 150 million websites while maintaining a stellar security and compliance track record.
Most importantly though, the Web went from 67% encrypted page loads to 77% in 2018, according to statistics…

Today, as I announced earlier, the Corman Lisp 3.1 has been released after more than a decade-long break. Somehow it happened that I am one of the active mai...

The 2-to-1 decision is today's Feminist Majority Foundation v. Hurley (the University of Mary Washington case). I'm traveling, and thus won't have time to post a detailed analysis myself, but here's part of the analysis from Samantha Harris at FIRE:

The…

We design and build software that stands the test of time, specializing in Ruby on Rails, React, and Ionic.

In this post, I will be explaining ESP-12F module usage with minimal set of components. ESP-12F as a stand-alone module is of no use unles...

Updates (2024) Since this post was originally written, the FizzBuzz github repository has received 23 additional contributions so the total…

The Chinese scientist who shocked the world with claims of creating the first genetically engineered babies is being detained in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to a report in The New York Times. He Jiankui, a Chinese research scientist at the Southern…

Reasons why you should care about how your social network is run and structured

Few weeks ago I solved a great KVM escaping challenge from TWCTF hosted by @TokyoWesterns . I have given a writeup on my blog:  [Write-up] T...

How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

Forth + Lisp in C