I don't understand how frequencies are defined in images/photographs. As far as I understand it now, high frequencies are like sharp things in images, like edges or so, and low frequencies are kind...

2021 Update: I was planning to keep this more updated, but it turns out we’re all distributed companies now.

An annual global audit from the  Break Free From Plastic movement has found the largest sources of plastic pollution.

Starting today you can follow my podcast at sive.rs/podcast.rss or listen on the web at sive.rs/podcast.

Simon Fraser University research psychologist Myriam Juda says switching to permanent daylight time will interrupt British Columbians' circadian rythms, putting people in a permanent jet-lag like state.

TROY, N.Y. — Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. The advancement, published online today in Tissue Engineering Part A, is a significant step toward creating grafts that…

Two firefighting helicopters had to be grounded multiple times to avoid a drone whose pilot was apparently trying to snap photos of the flames.

Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely used Transport Layer Protocol to secure connections between clients and servers. In this post we explain how SSH handshake works.

Some iconic scrollbars recreated as faithfully as possible.

The new AirPods Pro page is a strong contender for this year’s web perf fail award: - 1578 requests - 65.4 MB transferred - 67.1 MB resources - Finish: 2.3 min - DOMContentLoaded: 1.98 s - Load: 2.65 s https://t.co/b2VjF0Yqus

I joked the other day that some of the best fairytales are written in Excel. While there isn't a single magic number or set formula, understanding industry benchmarks can be really helpful to keep a finger on the pulse to measure the health of the company…

An update on TSMC's upcoming 5-nanometer process technology.

Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it:

I learned sometime ago that we should be doing
`python -m pip install ...` instead of simply…

Many of us participate in activities and sports that are at least somewhat dangerous.  However, most of us also do not have a full appreciation of how risky these activities really are, especially compared to other things that we could be doing instead. We…