A Dutch surgeon has had a link about her medical suspension removed

Have you ever wondered why 132 characters is such a common width for printers? Many printers produced lines of 132 characters, such as the g...

Here are the new features coming to ES2019 for JavaScript.

After two decades of underperformance, that should not be surprising

When the tech giant helps Wikipedia, it’s also helping itself.

A semi-coherent rant about how tar is not suited for container images, and what properties we'd want in an OCIv2 image format (which will be presented in a follow-up).

This post describes WePay’s highly available MySQL architecture, and how we achieve short outage times during failures.

A resource for magnetic finger implants, created by Charlotte Dann. What is a magnetic implant? Why would you want such a thing? Are you going to die? Yes. We will all die.

Recently, a founder asked to chat with me about SEO. During our call, the founder - whose startup is backed by a top-tier VC - said to me “I assume that you acquired your first users through paid marketing.” Really? Is this an assumption nowadays? Since…

Investigation by Chinese authorities finds He Jiankui broke national regulations in his controversial work on gene-edited babies.

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, id Software co-founder and technical director John Carmack looks at the value in programming in a functional style with C++.] Probably everyone reading this has heard "functional programming" put forth as…

With everyone getting excited about Typenoscript I thought it'd be fun to do a walkthrough of one of my favorite features, type guards. These are type-safe functions that allow us to assert that an argument matches a certain type. The best part is these work…

Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong’s tense two-word report came over the loudspeakers at NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, more of a question than a statement as he and and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin rapidly descended [more...]

Learn why many of the world’s leading companies are choosing Google Cloud to solve their toughest challenges.

When Columbus arrived in the Bahamas in 1492, and when Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot in English) landed on the mainland of North America in 1497, they arrived in a vast land, but also in an equally v…