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So, here’s a story. On 15 April 2019, when the roofspace over the crossing of Paris Cathedral caught fire, I was in a pub in east London having a burger. My initial reaction was not one of an…

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It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.” That short sentence includes at least three factual errors.…

Region’s likely new president Isabel Díaz Ayuso believes congestion is part of city’s cultural identity

HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series suggests that it is difficult to make an exciting movie about nuclear disasters without leading viewers to believe that they were much worse than they actually were.

Mental models frame how we think about the world. This article describes how they work and why we need more of them in information security.

I have been coaching several experienced software engineers to further grow
professionally, since transitioning
[https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/things-ive-learned-transitioning-from-engineer-to-engineering-manager/]
to being an engineering manager. I…

Early 2018 we released the first version of our minimalist GraphQL client `urql`. For the last year, we’ve been rethinking, rearchitecting, and rebuilding the core of the library, and a few months ago we silently launched `urql` v1.0.

Today, with the release…

The hunger for these offsets is blinding us to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't — and won't — deliver the climate benefit they promise.

Good news! Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. The state’s senate unanimously passed the bill 35-0 on Thursday following an earlier vote by state representatives…

Seven free software solutions to cover your most important use cases.

Some student loan borrowers are packing their bags and fleeing to other countries, where the cost of living is lower and debt collectors wield less power.

State is how we make programs do non-trivial things. If we’re writing a
video game, one of its states might be a count of the number of bad …

The ‘copyright case of the decade’ is a $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant, Google, nearly 10 years ago. Google is asking for the Supreme Court to hear the

Plaid's API helps developers provide financial services to tens of millions of consumers across North America. These services help consumers manage their personal finances, let them transfer funds and make payments, and allow them to access loans and mortgages.…