Many projects have adopted the "GitHub style" of development over the last
few years, though, of course, there are some high-profile exceptions that
still use patches and mailing lists. Many projects are leery of putting
all of their project metadata into…

One of the best profile writers working today shares what motivates her work.

The grain-growing region in the High Plains of America—known as America’s breadbasket—relies entirely on the Ogallala Aquifer. But long term unsustainable use of the aquifer is forcing states in the region to face the prospect of a regional economic disaster.…

Nature - A vast analysis tackles a defining question of the digital age.

I've been saying for awhile now that we're getting close to a crisis point in the IT world. The mid-tier IT worker is in imminent danger of being automated out of existence, and just like with the vanished factory jobs of the last 30 years, nobody wants to…

2019 may finally be the year for ‘The Search Engine That Doesn’t Track You’

Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on Postgres with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - hasura/graphql-engine

The story of Dr. Rapp

Prime Minister Edouard Philippe says a no-deal Brexit is now looking increasingly likely.

A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers - GitHub - charlax/professional-programming at opensourceprojects.dev

Three years ago we embraced an exciting new publishing platform called Medium. It felt like a new start for a writing community, and we benefitted immensely from the boost in reach and readership t…

Disclaimer: This is a story about my interview experience in the tech industry. No personal names will be used to preserve anonymity. The…

Count the number of people around you :family_man_man_boy: by monitoring wifi signals :satellite: - GitHub - schollz/howmanypeoplearearound: Count the number of people around you by monitoring wifi...

San Diego’s installation of 3,200 smart streetlights is slightly behind schedule, but the city has already ordered more

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With the release of ScyllaDB Open Source 3.0, we’ve introduced a rich set of new production-ready features that surpass the capabilities of Apache Cassandra.

'The massive success of Facebook eventually led to catastrophe'