Animated SVGs just make sense. There are lots of articles explaining why you should be using SVG...

After about a year of development, the MATE Desktop team have finally released MATE 1.24. A big thank you to all contributors who helped to make this happen.

What's new in MATE 1.24
This release cont

1. It’s February in Las Vegas, and because I have managed to step on my glasses and break them, as I do at least once a year, I have gone to the LensCrafters at the Boulevard Mall, a faux deco artifact of midcentury Vegas that, like so many malls in America…

I sat down to talk with Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin about their project to copyright every possible melody, and why that's a good thing.

The TedX talk:
https://youtu.be/sJtm0MoOgiU

VSauce "Will We Ever Run Out of New Music"
https://youtu.be/DAcjV60RnRw…

Facts are friends not food

A federal judge ordered the Navy to release documents related to the sinking of USS Thresher (SSN-593), the nation’s worst nuclear submarine disaster.

Apple Pay is getting more attention—including from competition watchdogs.

Huawei can covertly access mobile networks via back doors meant for law enforcement, the U.S. has told allies in a bid to show the Chinese firm poses a security threat.

For students, the lessons were painful.

Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch said evidence indicates that the international cordon keeping coronavirus cases bottled up in China is a leaky one, and it’s likely that the relative handful of global cases reported so far are undercounted. If true, that will lead…

Some hints and tips for getting started with Mypy and introducing it to existing projects

I’m tired of hearing about Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Ada Lovelace. Can’t we think of someone else for once? I went ahead and compiled a bunch of really important women according to some fairly arbitrary rules:
There’s a specific thing you can…

C++ exceptions have their place, but using an alternative is recommended for general program flow control.

Fast web applications through dynamic, partially-stateful dataflow - mit-pdos/noria

A tool for editing version-control repositories and translating among different systems. Supports git, bzr, Subversion, darcs, and fossil directly, also hg, CVS, and RCS through plugins.

Jessica Taylor recently wrote a post objecting to what she describes as appeals to consequences. In general an appeal to consequences is saying that "X would have bad consequences" means that "X is false", but Jessica is using it in a broader way, to include…