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As part of social distancing efforts to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus, several universities have now transitioned, or begun transitioning, to online teaching models.  (My home unive…

Patrick McKenzie founded flashcard app Bingo Card Creator and programming game/hiring tool Starfighter, before joining the team at payment processing service Stripe to help increase the GDP of the internet through content and communications. He's well known…

Fast function to parse strings into double (binary64) floating-point values, enforces the RFC 7159 (JSON standard) grammar: 4x faster than strtod - lemire/fast_double_parser

React Table v7 marks the culmination of over a years worth of work to refactor the entire library to a hooks-only UI/Style/Markup agnostic table building utility.
This latest version is a collectio...

It’s been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called 'A1' instances. While the processor didn’t impress all too much in terms of its performance, it was…

From Colt's traveling show to the Wrights' bicycle shop

In the throes of frantic market uncertainty, traders using Robinhood Markets Inc. faced the ultimate frustration: Their accounts kept malfunctioning. Behind the scenes, the online brokerage was already bracing for financial strains.

So I’m off on a road trip I’ve wanted to take for years. It all started with a woman, her imagination and the desire to help generations of women. Want to help me find her? #ISOBette

These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage. (Btrfs support plans are shelved unless and until btrfs becomes reliable.) - jim...

As we all know, unless you can afford a medical concierge and the most expensive insurance and facilities, the for-profit, private-insurance-based health care system in the United States is somewhere between a headache and a nightmare. Inpatient mental health…

February was NeXT Month over at r/Rerobattlestations. Being a huge NeXT fan, I was eager to take part in the event, which entailed taking a photo or video of a retro computer running NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP. While my first NEXTSTEP system was … Continue reading…

Two cybersecurity company employees who attended an annual industry conference last month in San Francisco have tested positive for the coronavirus. At least one is seriously ill with respiratory issues.