For my ten years in the Erlang community, I decided to cover a few topics such as hype phases and how this related to Erlang, the ladder of ideas within the language and how that can impact adoption, what changed in my decade there, and what I think Erlang…

Mattermost, which presents itself as an open source alternative to Slack raised $50M in series B funding. This is definitely something to get excited for.





Slack is a cloud-based team collaboration software that is mainly used for internal team communication.…

As a frequent contributor to open source projects (both within and beyond Red Hat), I find one of the most common time-wasters is dealing with code reviews of my submitted code that are negative or

Why do AC cords need three
prongs? If there is no positive or negative in AC systems, why do we
have HOT and NEUTRAL? I attempt to shed light on some of these
mysteries.

Some think automated radio emails are mucking up the spectrum reserved for amateur radio, while others say these new offerings provide a useful service

Many of us will know what bubbling lakes of lava within volcanoes look like. After all, we've seen them our entire lives in movies, TV shows and cartoons. But that doesn't mean they're common. Sure volcanic eruptions can often result in temporary lakes and…

Condensed and beautifully illustrated English version of the ten volume series on insects by Jean-Henri Fabre in which he brought out the beauty and drama in the lives of creatures that had hitherto been regarded with horror, if regarded at all.

Voltaire was right.

Technology keeps us constantly stimulated. What do we lose when we no longer have nothing to do?

Efforts to form unions at several smaller tech companies have stalled, showing the limits of how far a wave of employee activism can go.

The days of Ctrl-Shift-Enter and You can't change part of an array are finally over! Say hello to the new dynamic arrays that Microsoft has now (July 2019) rolled out to a broader user base: their Office 365 subscribers who are on the monthly channel.

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak deleted his personal Facebook account last year and is now telling everyone else they should do the same. Woz was stopped by TMZ at Reagan National Airport in D.C. recently and warned that the lack of privacy on the platform…

The apps gather information such as location, even after owners explicitly say no. Google says a fix won’t come until Android Q.

We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer 1 . Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Try...

Deutsche Bank staff across the globe have learned how the bank’s massive restructuring plan will affect them

By Lucy Maddox. This new research adds to a body of evidence that takes the blame off the nurse and squarely places the responsibility on the system to do better.