One of my most controversial software opinions is that your sleep quality and stress level matter far, far more than the languages you use or the practices you follow. Nothing else comes close: not type systems, not TDD, not formal methods, not ANYTHING.…

How were giant ancient structures like Stonehenge, or the towering Moai heads on Easter Island, assembled at a time when cranes and trucks were still

I was stuck. Swinging a pickax helped.

Leia was born profoundly deaf but pioneering surgery and therapy has enabled her to hear sounds.

I have long dreamed of attending an art exhibition that presented the full range of generative art starting with early analog works of the late 1950s and ranging all the way up to new AI work we have seen in just the last few years. To my knowledge, no such…

At first glance today, Nintendo’s Game Boy can come off as a hefty, dull gray block of a handheld console.

Over the last few months I have been working on yet another new language, this time for programming FPGAs. This post will provide a short introduction to Fairylog by way of building some custom hardware to read a pair of Nintendo pads. Realtime 24bit co...

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The thing that Bob G. cared about a lot, and would NOT RELAX ABOUT, was the temperature of beer.

I put a webcam in a favicon you're welcome Demo: wybiral.github.io/code-art/proje…

Japanese home computer created by Sharp Corporation

This project is no longer actively maintained. Please see https://buck2.build for the build system that replaces it. Old content continues below for historical purposes. Buck is a build system developed and used by Facebook. It encourages the creation of…

Examine the use of Istio’s observability tools to monitor Go-based microservices that use Protocol Buffers, gRPC, and HTTP/2.

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I was sad to hear that Joe Armstrong passed away this week. He was a kind, generous, witty, brilliant fellow. He was also a hero and a mentor to me personally. I had the privilege to be hired by Jo...

When a promotional video for German camera maker Leica hit the web this week, it looked like a bold statement about the hard work done by photojournalists around the world. But the company is now distancing itself from the 5-minute video after Chinese social…

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