Having worked for a decade as an engineer at various companies, I noticed how
most teams in software often have "the" manager and "the" tech lead or "the"
senior engineer. These are the decision-makers and ones that lead all projects.
Many engineers go to…

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”

I'm doing https://www.scala-exercises.org/cats/ and learning more advanced functional programming concepts from other sources as well. My context...

For the longest time, I believed that if smart people worked hard and grew up in a reasonably nurturing environment, success would come…

Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records
Edit: I posted this on HN 3 and John Graham-Cumming (the CTO of Cloudflare) reached out and said they're looking into the issue internally 4. I'm grateful th...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten, the World Health Organization said on Monday, insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to reach that level.

China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.

YOW! Talk My YOW! talk, "Designing Distributed Systems with TLA+", is now available! You can watch it here. Donald Knuth Was Framed The other day I was...

We live in interesting times. For instance, we are witnessing several extinction events all at once. One of them is the massive extinction of species. The other is the extinction of jobs. Both are …

I've had this blog post in one form or another of draft for several years now. I hesitated to complete it, in part because at the best of times cultural observations can easily be misinterpreted and also in part because of the role I had in working with many…

Sock knitters know this beast: Second Sock Syndrome. What can you do about it? How can you fight it or cope with it? Here are 12 ideas that might help you.

'Wikipedia consensus is that an unedited machine translation, left as a Wikipedia article, is worse than nothing.'