I’ve found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with the recent pushes to get people to switch from Chrome to Firefox. Google keeps pulling dumb trick after dumb trick in an attempt to have more control over the web. It’s hard not to think that this kind of behavior…

I don’t know if this problem has a proper name, but in game development you usually don’t want truly random numbers. I’ve seen the solution named a “pseudo random distributi…

Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians

It's been said that we don't really understand a system until we understand how it fails. Despite having written a (toy) TCP implementation in college and then working for several years in industry, I'm continuing to learn more deeply how TCP works — and…

Cover image: The Couple in the Street (1887) by Charles Angrand. Courtesy Musée d’Orsay/Wikipedia Right now, in millions of bedrooms across the land, people are sighing for love. Love is impo…

9th of August 2019. It’s 4:52pm on a Friday, people are getting ready to go home and enjoy their weekend, then…
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5% of Great Britain goes dark.
Wide spread power outages, trains stop, an airport and hospital lose power.
What happened? This timeline is…

NetNewsWire 5 debuts as one of the simplest and speediest RSS readers available for the Mac and has a classic, recognizably-Mac design that fits right at home in all versions of macOS.

“We learn most when we have to invent” —Piaget In Part 2 you created a minimalistic WSGI server that could handle basic HTTP GET requests. And I asked you a question, “How can you make your server handle more than one request at a time?” In this article you…

An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly - GitHub - GetFirefly/firefly: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly

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Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are well-known; they’ve been written about in Fast Company and the WSJ. But almost everyone misses the point. They aren’t about team size—they’re about autonomy and accountability.

A Tweet has shown us the capabilities or the current generation of US spy satellites. By analyzing the images shared the location of the satellite was determined and traced to USA-224 AKA NROL-49 - an image intelligence satellite that is derived from a design…

My name is Laura Elizabeth and I run Client Portal. Client portal is a lightweight project management tool for WordPress. But unlike most project management tools, it doesn’t try to do everything. It gives your clients a portal on your own website where they…

New-gadget season is almost here, but our columnist has concluded, after testing hundreds of gizmos over the years, that it pays to wait.

At least 17 children, including babies, began growing hair all over their bodies after a hair loss treatment was mislabeled as heartburn medicine.