Designing media to reflect how people think and learn

In only a month after opening, New York’s most expensive private development is already falling apart. If you look up from your phone camera for ... Read moreA city for the rich, built poorly: The construction of Hudson Yards

On Boeing’s 737 MAX, the company altered cutout switches to remove an option that would potentially allow pilots to shut off automated controls while keeping the functionality of the manual electric controls on the yoke. That change closed out an...

A blog about Rust and embedded stuff

For years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong.

GitLab has a 3 year strategy to be the leading complete DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application.

What I gained, lost & learned while working for Microsoft.

They were West German teenagers on a school trip. He was a young man desperate to escape from East Germany. Thirty five years later, they tell their story

The night sky offers an unlimited source of markers (e.g. stars, constellations, Milky Way, etc.) that never lie about the time of year and location in the world you shot a night sky picture from. You don’t even need to be a professional astronomer or to…

Adobe is no longer allowing subscribers to download previous versions of Premiere and is even sending notices to people who still have them installed to say they're no longer allowed to use them.

When novelist and former mental health nurse Nathan Filer met a patient who wouldn’t take his pills, it started him on a journey into the complex and contradictory world of schizophrenia

Research shows that loud sound can have a significant impact on human health, as well as doing devastating damage to ecosystems.

(Reuters) - Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc has suspended a global social media marketing campaign in response to Reuters inquiries into the company’s use of young online personalities to sell its new “heated tobacco” device, including a 21…

You may use the blue bin, but it doesn't mean you're helping the environment

The long read: In 2001, a smugglers’ yacht washed up in the Azores and disgorged its contents. The island of São Miguel was quickly flooded with high-grade cocaine – and nearly 20 years on, it is still feeling the effects

This post includes a standalone (only standard headers, no external libs) ~400 line C++ source file that can analyze text and use an order N Markov chain to randomly generate new text in the same s…