This is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure.  It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents.  It represents solely the perspective and opinions of myself, in my…

Creative thinking and empathy are crucial for everyday interactions and subjective well-being. This is emphasized by studies showing a reduction in these skills in populations where social interact...

Dry.io is a programmable software platform, a developer playground that helps you write web apps using just a few lines of code. The AI fills in the rest.

Zeroing out a CPU register seems like the simplest and most basic operation imaginable, but in fact x86 CPUs contain a surprising amount of special logic to make this operation run smoothly. The mo…

Evidence suggests that fasting, during which only water is consumed, results in potentially health promoting physiological effects. However, peer-reviewed research assessing the safety of water-only fasting is lacking. To address this, we conducted a ...

Kristoffer Gronlund

https://2019.linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/153/

One of my favorite papers in computer science is the original LISP
paper by John McCarthy. Written in 1959, it describes something
mind-bending: The interpreter for a language in…

I’m pleased to report that Hyperscan, the regular expression matcher that ate my life from 2008 through 2018, finally has a paper (pdf) – it’s being presented this week at NSDI &#…

GUIs are bloatware. I’ve said it before. However, rather than just complaining about IDEs I’d like to provide an understandable guide to a much better alternative: the terminal.

The rise of user space packet processing frameworks like DPDK and netmap makes low-level code more accessible to developers and researchers. Previously, driver code was hidden in the kernel and...

Interactive Go interpreter and debugger with REPL, Eval, generics and Lisp-like macros - cosmos72/gomacro

Even San Francisco’s tech chops can’t save it from relying on computers that belong in a museum.

Since our first release in 2002, there have been 69 security bugs in Firefox’s style component. If we'd had a time machine and could have written this component in Rust from the start, 51% wouldn't have happened. That said, Rust is not foolproof. Developers…

Mozilla Common Voice releases the largest to-date public domain voice dataset, including 18 languages, almost 1,400 hours of data from 42,000 contributors.

I've long been impressed by shell one-liners. They seem like magical incantations. Pipe a few terse commands together, et voilà! Out pops the solution to a problem that would seem to require pages of code. Are these one-liners real or mythology? To some extent…

Your internet-of-shit smart lightbulb is probably storing your wifi password in the clear, ready to be recovered by wily dumpster-divers; Limited Results discovered the security worst-practice during a teardown of…

What do you do when a new feature in a competitor's smartphone app looks a lot like the defining feature of your app? What can you do? That’s the position San Francisco developer Eric Wolfe has found himself in the past few weeks after social fitness giant…

There are so many programming books out there, sometimes it’s hard to know what books are best. Programming itself is so broad and there are so many concepts to learn. This book list is a curation of the most valuable books for each major Software category.

I feel myself becoming part of the machine

Design your web UI, then use the design directly from code. No more time wasted translating mockups to JSX and CSS. Using Pagedraw is like adding another React developer to your team.