I would, in fact, go so far as to say that Infinite Jest is one of the very few novels for which the phrase ‘not worth...

Also Aramco in indexes, trading aptitude, cold storage and unregistered securities offerings.

A tale of files and processes. Learn how Unix and Linux work from the ground up in this small complete guide to unix. Learn common mistakes people make while working with unix, and how to fix them. Figure out why unix vs linux doesn't make sense.

To mitigate the risk of regional outages for large companies, Julia Biro and team used Lambda@Edge to create multi-region active-active delivery.

Government spending deal includes $25 million for studies of firearm safety.

Today, while working on Friendly-traceback ( improved documentation !) as I have been doing a lot recently, I came into an odd SyntaxError ...

The Eventide Project team is excited to announce Message DB: A fully-featured event store and message store implemented in PostgreSQL for pub/sub, event sourcing, and evented microservices applicat...

I was in a conversation recently about the power of macros, and the use of syntactic abstraction in building simpler systems.

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Hungry Parasite: The gods confound the man who first found     out How to distinguish hours! Confound him too Who in this place set up a sundial To cut and hack my days so wre

As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive noscripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.

The first open source project building a transparent, high-quality reference
design and integration guidelines for silicon root of trust (RoT) chips

A 50-inch TV for $300 comes with some trade-offs.

Industrial Transitions

I’m very sorry to announce that Bill Lorensen has died. As many of you know, Bill was one of the founding authors of the VTK textbook and software. He had remained very active in VTK development even after retiring from GE Research over a decade ago, recently…

Back in July last year, Scott Helme and I shipped a little pet project that tracked the world's largest websites not implementing HTTPS by default. We called it Why No HTTPS? and it gave people a way to see the largest websites not taking transport layer…

The release cycle of Java has changed quite dramatically recently, meaning we're getting new features at a more rapid pace than earlier. If you still hadn't had the time to read up on what's been going on the last releases, look no further!

When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?