This is a guest lecture I gave at Two Sigma in November 2018 where I discussed the experience of using Rust for building larger, high-performance systems. In it, I cover what makes Rust an attractive option for such projects; Noria, the high-performance…

Diplomatic officials may have been targeted with an unknown weapon in Havana. But a recording of one “sonic attack” actually is the singing of a very loud cricket, a new analysis concludes.

A friend of dwyl asked the following question in our "chat" system: We feel it's worth capturing the reply in public because it's relevant to anyone considering Elixir. "Hi g...

Instead of taking all my vacation at once, I decided to see what a 4-day work week would look like. It taught me a lot about myself and how I work.

malloc / free replacement for unmanaged, linear memory situations (e.g. WASM, embedded devices...) - thi-ng/tinyalloc

58 votes and 92 comments so far on Reddit

DuckDuckGo is using the Canvas DOMRect API on their search engine. Canvas is used to make unique geometry measurements on target browsers, and DOMRect API uses rectangles. This can be verified with the CanvasBlocker Fire…

Build your own personal finance analytics using Plaid, Google Sheets and CircleCI. - GitHub - yyx990803/build-your-own-mint: Build your own personal finance analytics using Plaid, Google Sheets and...

10 votes and 226 comments so far on Reddit

Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2018 enter the public domain in many countries around the world, including Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Sergei Eisenstein and Martin Luther King Jr.

Seagate and Western Digital are pursuing rival technologies to push the limits of hard disk drives

This is a preview of Olive, a new non-linear video editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It comes with hardware-accelerated effects and video preview, basic cutting tools, fully functional snapping, and more.

A couple years ago, when I was writing for American Dad!, I needed an Arabic speaker for a small part. Our casting director recommended a Saudi comedian, who happened to be in LA for a couple months shooting a tv show. His name is Fahad Albutairi.

Single C file TLS 1.2/1.3 implementation, using tomcrypt as crypto library - eduardsui/tlse

Building a parser combinator library from scratch

The snag? It’s because your parents are going to die