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…

Bon is a programming language designed with simplicity, performance, and safety in mind. - daniel-p-gonzalez/bon

Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it.

Am I the only one who is skeptical clicking on ads I see online? Yes, I know it is the lifeblood of entrepreneurs , but I really don't care ...

Martin Gibala’s newest study finds that running up a staircase for just 20 seconds, repeated a few times a day, can measurably improve your fitness

The Rationalization of the Attention Market The phenomenon of mass communication is not coupled to any specific technology. Its essential feature is the capacity to articulate a message that satura…