In 2017, I bought a block of one thousand ISBNs. Other authors have been asking me why I did that and if they should do the same. I’m writing this blog post so I can point them at it. The sho…

With the new year upon us, I decided it was time to do something ambitious for my Open Source project. This is where I normally quip about never mentioning my project before, even though I literall…

With Rapid DNA machines, genetic fingerprinting could become as routine as the old-fashioned kind. But forensic experts see a potential for misuse.

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Mysterious musicians have cropped up on Spotify accounts. How did they get there - and do they point to a security problem?

Facebook encouraged developers to let children charge credit cards without parental permission on games like Ninja Saga, PetVille, Happy Aquarium and Barn Buddy. The company calls it “friendly fraud.”

Mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library for InVIsion Studio and Sketch.

Learn how you can easily save a collection of files directly to B2 cloud storage using the new Backblaze 6.0 client.

by Darius Kazemi, Jan 23 2019 In 2019 I'm reading one RFC a day in chronological order starting from the very first one. More on thi...

Queueing theory: an introduction for software development - joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory

Mockingbirds exposed to sub-lethal levels of lead in urban areas display significantly heightened aggression, said Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at Tulane University. The team said their findings highlight the possibility that sub-lethal lead…

A simple webserver / CO2 Monitor. Contribute to Maddimax/MadCO2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Facebook’s chief executive has asserted control over its sprawling divisions and mandated the social network’s messaging services be knitted together.

Like many Victorian gentlemen of means, Richard Carrington did not need to sully himself with labor; instead, he turned his energies to the study of natural philosophy. It was the field of astronom…

Here is the patent that includes optionals chaining: 9,952,841 This is very disturbing. It's like Apple has gone insane. Computer languages are not supposed to be owned by any company. We learned this mistake with Java and APIs. Computer languages are supposed…

A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers - littlefs-project/littlefs

Billionaire investor George Soros warned a crowd at Davos about the "mortal danger facing open societies," and took China's government to task.

Serialization code generator for QUICK struct content comparison - GitHub - CovenantSQL/HashStablePack: Serialization code generator for QUICK struct content comparison

Departures from a number of US airports were affected by air control shortages on Friday.