Portugal is using goats to clear the underbrush that fuels wildfires in hard to reach places and abandoned lands. If only it can find shepherds to tend them.

Our aim was to evaluate how human beliefs affect working dog outcomes in an applied environment. We asked whether beliefs of scent detection dog handlers affect team performance and evaluated relative importance of human versus dog influences on handlers’…

Owen Matthews on the colourful life of a Stalin-era secret agent

Facebook’s web codebase currently contains more than 100 million lines of Hack code, and changes thousands of times per day. To handle the sheer volume of code, we build sophisticated systems that …

You should be multi-faceted, never work purely to your technical abilities, think about how you can make your entire company better

SoftBank is planning to lend $20 billion to its employees, including the CEO Masayoshi Son,  with the hope that the employees will reinvest the capital in SoftBank. This according to them, is their own vision venture fund, the Wall Street Journal reported.…

The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created…

AFP granted warrant to unlock smartphone but decision overturned on grounds device not covered by Crimes Act

Despite many warnings, Kaspersky products will still snoop inside HTTPS connections. This weakens security considerably, with some fallout presented here.

Free movement for EU citizens will end on day one of a no-deal Brexit, under new Home Office plans – despite warnings of chaos and of people trapped in legal limbo.

Discovered this very interesting usage of `switch` in a codebase, basically making it possible to match cases on arbitrary logic instead of an exact match of string or number literals. https://t.co/h0TKjejUOC is this a commonly known pattern? First time I've…

Last year I got certified as an EMT. As part of the training I shadowed an ambulance for a day and assisted with each run. For each patient we treated, we had to fill out a patient care report.
A patient care report. (source) EMTs are just one part in a…

I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post.
If you’re unproductive right now
Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire…

Whenever new technologies emerge, the first priority for a technologist is to understand the implication of adopting it. Serverless architecture is a case in point.

@WullieDaft Hi there While the Bank appreciates the useful role that password managers play & accept that you can make use of this for your other apps & systems, we caution you against the use of a password manager for your banking...

Recently China allowed their currency to fall below the key level of 7 yuan per dollar. But what does that mean for a currency’s value to ch

A recent H-1B visa data-dump from the U.S. Department of Labor shows job noscripts such as “software developer” and “software engineer” are the most widely