This post was co-written with Zack Sultan, Lead Product Designer at Slack In 2016, Slack was two years old and already used by millions of people. Our codebase had grown rapidly, and like many companies that focused on product/market fit, our code was built…

Building a better Go linker Austin Clements 2019-09-12 golang.org/s/better-linker Motivation As the scale of software built in Go grows, both the memory consumption and performance of the Go linker have become a problem for our users. We’ve had a fire drill…

What is the ideal pillow? In Chinese culture, the ideal shifted over time, and views on a good sleep also reveal attitudes about studying, love, food and drink.

The city of Dunkirk in northern France launched a revamped bus system last year with a twist – it’s completely free. A new study shows that the programme is not only revitalising the city center but…

A vector and matrix library written in C# using hardware intrinsics - john-h-k/MathSharp

Preview version of an open source tool that enables developers to run their AWS DynamoDB™ workloads on Apache Cassandra™. With the proxy, developers can run DynamoDB workloads outside of AWS (inclu...

Hello! I’ve released a new zine! It’s called “HTTP: Learn your browsers language!”

Skunk Works needed a way to hide the A-12's radar reflecting behind, so they dumped cesium into its fuel to create a radar-absorbing exhaust plume.

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I reproduced my favorite equipment in "falling_block techonology"
I think that the production period was about two weeks
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Taneli Armanto is an unsung hero of mobile gaming. Meet the Finnish software engineer who developed ‘Snake’ for the Nokia 6110 — launching a $100 billion industry

The Classical world abounded with avians – and so birds took up in the human imagination, nesting in our language and art

It’s the first union effort at a well-known tech company.

Less than 2% of its workforce, or 1,900 employees, will no longer be eligible for medical coverage in 2020.

Once discredited by his association with Nazism, Martin Heidegger is enjoying a posthumous revival. So what is it about his ideas that resonate with so many?