I finished my first semester teaching at the University of Michigan. I taught EECS 493 User Interface Development all on the Web. It was a tough class for me since I had never before this class use…

From hardware darling to hard luck.

A new biography reveals Nietzsche to be a perfect gentleman—shy, attentive, and a little whimsical

Tens of thousands of public servants have applied to have their federal student loans forgiven through a temporary relief program run by the U.S.

How to create 1.7-Mbyte MDF floppies with GRDuw Windows shareware or Linux. Now add DNS server and full DHCP to floppy-bootable Linux.

Two commonly perceived problems of the programming language Go are that


handling errors is verbose and repetitive
parametric polymorphism is not available


This post is about the intersection of those problems
and Rob Pike’s recommendation on the former.

Lots of people have talked about the downsides of tech. But something can be convenient and good for you at the same time.

Beneath the streets of Beijing, people live in an underground universe constructed during the Cold War era.

The world’s biggest smartphone and memorychip maker Samsung Electronics Co yesterday warned of a more than 60 percent plunge in first-quarter operating profit in the face of weakening markets.
Operating profit for the first quarter would be “approximately…

The claims of "Modern Monetary Theory" actually describe what the Federal Reserve is already doing. But it only works if you don't get greedy.

Particles' changing masses could explain why distant galaxies appear to be rushing away.

SHOP3 Git repository. Contribute to shop-planner/shop3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Boeing, Goldman Sachs and Facebook are among the companies in hot water

SQL is the only ever successful, mainstream, and general-purpose 4GL (Fourth Generation Programming Language) and it is awesome!

With modern cost based optimisation, relational databases like Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL finally keep up to the promise…

An internal Microsoft email chain, first reported by Quartz, reportedly details a litany of egregious acts of sexual harassment and discrimination experienced by women at the company. The chain received hundreds of responses since it began on March 20, according…

✨🐙 A GPL Licensed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy app for iOS and Android. Currently a teaching tool - Flaque/quirk

Things I've learned porting a 50 thousand lines of code from Java to Go