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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?

Your Makefiles are full of tabs and errors.
An opinionated approach to writing (GNU) Makefiles that I learned from Ben may still be able to salvage them.

Bloomberg LP was fined 5 million euros ($5.6 million) in France following the publication of information from what turned out to be a fake press release that made Vinci SA shares tumble three years ago.

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Observations on Robust Decentralized Systems

Colin Bendell gets into the minutia of microbrowsers - the small previews of your site that are pervasive all around the web and through social media apps and search engines whenever an item of content on your site is referenced.

“I was doing nothing more than notifying my co-workers about Google's obligations under labor law,” Kathryn Spiers, the former Google engineer, said.

Kurt Gödel | Philosophy Essay | Juliette Kennedy discusses Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems: the ingenious proofs and enduring impact

Variously described as the trembles, the slows, or the illness “under which man turns sick and his domestic animals tremble,” milk sickness was a frequent 19th century cause of illness and death throughout much of Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and…