Listen now (12 min) | This week’s podcast (12 minutes) is on a crucial difference, between planning to start, and planning to finish. We talk a lot about the difference between more and less planning, on the spectrum between full waterfall and full agile…

The gotchas of measuring GraphQL performance, and promising ideas for the future.

The price of renewable energy is dropping rapidly. Energy storage will be needed to take full advantage of abundant but intermittent energy sources. E…

Debugging Better

How the capital's cash-strapped young people afford big city living.

The BIRD project aims to develop a fully functional dynamic IP routing daemon primarily targeted on (but not limited to) Linux, FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

An Extensible Request/Response Workbench. Contribute to warmuuh/milkman development by creating an account on GitHub.

Contribute to igushev/city_visit_planner development by creating an account on GitHub.

Doug Lindsay was starting his senior year in college when he was stricken by a mysterious illness. Doctors were baffled. He eventually realized that if he wanted his life back, he'd have to do it himself.

Tech giants Facebook and Alphabet’s Google could have their secretive algorithms policed by a beefed-up watchdog, under what Australia describes as world-first limits to the power that they wield over news and advertising markets.

About a week ago, Linus Torvalds made a software commit which has an air about it of the end of an era. The code in question contains a few patches to the driver for native floppy disc controllers.…

If you fill in this form, Equifax will send you $125 as part of its settlement with the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the FTC, and 48 out of 50 states.

After 6 years, I removed Docker from all my home servers. apt purge -y docker-ce Why? This was triggered by a recurring incident I faced where the Docker daemon was using 100% CPU on multiple cores…

For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signal…

In an earlier post, I asked how fast the getline function in C++ could run through the lines in a text file. The answer was about 2 GB/s, certainly over 1 GB/s. That is slower than some of the best disk drives and network connections. If you take into account…