Interviewed by Dag Spicer on 2019-08-15 in Mountain View, CA X9139.2020 ©Computer History Museum

In this extensive oral history, American electrical engineer, computer designer, inventor, and visionary Jon Rubinstein talks about a lifetime of creative engineering…

The Jianruiying were a small elite unit of specially selected Manchu soldiers under the Qing dynasty. They were trained to overcome rough terrain, obstacles, and rivers in order to commence special attacks towards fortifications. In some ways, they are comparable…

Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here. While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays. If you want to see detailed…

This blog post covers several enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in iOS and iPadOS 13.4 and Safari 13.1 on macOS to address our latest discoveries in the industry around tracking.

You probably came here because your Mac showed a message telling you that software from “Objective Development Software GmbH” (Little Snitch) loaded a system extension that will no longer be compatible with a future version of macOS and that you should contact…

Sync data from one Postgres database to another. Contribute to ankane/pgsync development by creating an account on GitHub.

YouTube will reduce the quality of videos around the world starting Tuesday, an effort by the world’s most popular video site to ease internet traffic during the coronavirus outbreak.

Graceful labelings on graphs and the GTC.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave huge cities roughly the same number of test kits as some rural spots, which crippled efforts by health officials to contain the virus.

Business owner Ian Whitworth argues we need legislation to ban rents for COVID-19-affected businesses.

The Enforcer software can keep government surveillance from straying into illegality.

Most schools teach number systems the same way. First they teach natural numbers (or “counting numbers”), then integers, rationals, reals, and complex numbers, in that order. Rationals are countable and reals are not, but that’s okay. Once you start taking…

How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing

Turing Pi is a compact ARM cluster that provides a secure and scalable compute in the edge. It is designed to make web-scale edge computing easier for developers.