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…

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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.

Twenty-one percent of rural hospitals are at high risk of closing, according to a new report. That equates to 430 hospitals across 43 states that employ about 150,000 people and generate about $21.2 billion in patient revenue.

journaling filesystem used on Amiga computers

Almost every software company that I’ve ever talked to has both a technical track and a management track meaning that if you stay on the…