With travel nearly at a standstill, the home-sharing giant is facing increasing losses and doubts about its planned public listing.

Thanks to the pandemic, radiocarbon dating and further excavations are on hold.

A novelist friend introduced me to a productivity technique I’ve found effective. I spread it to my friends, and now to my horror management types have discovered it. A friend just told me he…

As someone who entered the job market during the dot com bust, I want all the young programmers worrying about this uncertain job market to know, things will get better.

Cyan Worlds co-founder Rand Miller goes behind the scenes of the development of one of the best selling PC games of all time, Myst. The HyperCard-developed noscript ran into some snags when trying to run on the CD-ROM format. "I had a really powerful Mac, with…

Microsoft embraces Linux further in Windows 10.

Efficient elliptic curves tend not to have a prime order. This discusses the problems this causes, and the solutions.

Google's plans on making Swift the first mainstream language with first-class language-integrated differentiable programming capabilities. What's so cool about Swift?

A 15 minute introduction to timely dataflow, intended for people who do not have twenty minutes.

Timely dataflow is a modern data-parallel dataflow framework, but from the outside it can appear challenging. This video attempts to call out the most interesting…

A mere three weeks ago I triumphantly published a post on my home-baked productivity system describing how I’d successfully taken control of distractions in my life to get shit done. I was invincible. On top of the world.
Roughly around the same time I started…

There have been discussions on various internet forums about the future of Qt open source in the last two days. The contents do not reflect the views or plans of The Qt Company.   


The Qt Company is proud to be committed to its customers, open source, and…

A look at how we recently migrated hundreds of ZooKeeper instances from individual server instances to Kubernetes without downtime.

As the recession deepens, world governments consider anything to overcome it, including handing out cash to everybody—an unconventional measure known as helicopter money. In this piece, we take a look at this concept, its role in the economy, and the related…