This time I am not writing an interview or a technical post. I am writing about a series of events that took place in the context of the…

A new book profiles 10 prominent emperors who helped shape the destiny of Rome. Part of their legacy includes wild stories of hedonistic banquets, when luxury ruled even as plebeians went hungry.

Apple updated MacBook Pro with faster 8th- and 9th-generation Intel Core processors, bringing eight cores to MacBook Pro for the first time.

Es ist wichtig, wieder mehr über Programme nachzudenken, die nicht von großen Konzernen lizenziert werden – und damit Teil von Machtpolitik werden können. Gerade in Europa.

In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store...

Foreign Minister Taro Kono said Tuesday he plans to ask overseas media outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as is customary in the c

Technical Debt is a metaphor for the consequences of cruft. You either have to accept a drag on further features (paying interest) or fix the software (paying the principal)

Let’s walk through the process of building a dead simple Phoenix application from the ground up.

Days after Uber began selling stock, the National Labor Relations Board’s top lawyer gave the company a huge gift. In an advice memo, the general counsel’s office determined that Uber’s drivers are independent contractors, not employees. If drivers are legally…

I lost north of $100,000 last Wednesday. It evaporated over a 24 hour timespan in a “SIM port attack” that drained my Coinbase account.

Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem

The Apple event tomorrow morning (US Pacific time), takes place at Town Hall, Building 4, Apple, Inc. in Cupertino. It has been almost 15 years since I visited there the last time. 'Hint: It&...

Wellcome's digital platform dedicated to long-form journalism about science and health, has now closed. 

Firefox 67 is now available in general release, bringing a faster and better JavaScript debugger, support for CSS prefers-color-scheme queries, and the initial debut of WebRender in stable Firefox. Dan ...

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

An excerpt from the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital

Update: You can find a newer version of this article on Python Morsels. In every Intro to Python class I teach, there’s always at least one & …

For years I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around how silicon chips actually work. How does a purposefully contaminated shard of glass wield control over electrons? Every once in a while, som…