The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes, both launched in 1977, each had a primary objective to explore Jupiter and Saturn. This goal was achieved by 1981. Yet Voyager, NASA's longest running mission, has continued to this day. Both Voyager probes are still…

The fastest Neovim colorizer. Contribute to norcalli/nvim-colorizer.lua development by creating an account on GitHub.

The subversive practice of a canonical composer.

Germany's BSI tested Firefox, Chrome, IE, and Edge. Firefox was only browser to pass all minimum requirements for mandatory security features.

I like Git commit messages. Used well, I think they’re one of the most powerful tools available to document a codebase over its lifetime. I’d like to illustrate that by showing you my favourite ever Git commit.

COBOL is a beautiful, expressive language that was cool then and is very cool now. Learning it is making me appreciate how much amazing thinking went on back then and continues to emerge.

This blog post is outdated. In the meantime we moved our servers from Iceland to The Netherlands. Here is why.

Find the software documentation system for Divio. Includes comprehensive tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. Learn more here.

A noncompete ban has served Silicon Valley well. Should it apply nationwide?

The final days of the 5.3 kernel development cycle included an extensive discussion of the
getrandom() API and the reversion of an ext4 improvement that
was indirectly causing boot hangs due to a lack of entropy. Blocking
filesystem improvements because…

(With 🙏 to Joe Beda, whose brilliant idea for a blog post this was.  Thanks for letting me borrow it!) Interviewing is hard and it sucks. In theory, it really shouldn’t be.  You’re a hi…

Billy Foister died last month after a heart attack at work. The incident was just one in a series of recent accidents and fatalities

Change Python code while it's running without losing state - julvo/reloading

A multi-video-game-system portable handheld. A digital audio workstation with a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A tribute to portable gaming.

Microchip detailed an FPGA family with a quad core 64bit RISC-V processor alongside the programmable array.