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This blog post is outdated.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.

2,018 Intel Shooting Star drones flying in formation acting as a 3D display. https://t.co/0a02ydzBcA

Exotic new states of matter contain patterns that repeat like clockwork

Microsoft just open sourced their data exploration tool known as SandDance: For those unfamiliar with SandDance, it was introduced nearly four years ago as a system for exploring and presenting dat…

Scala is a powerful software tool for experimentation with musical tunings, temperaments, scales,
just intonation and microtonality

Led by researchers at the Universities of Surrey, Warwick and Florence, new research shows that AI can quickly and accurately identify CHF by analyzing just one electrocardiogram (ECG) heartbeat.