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…

A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colliding ...

The AutoDapp project aims to automatically convert any existing web or mobile application into a decentralized application (DApp) by changing just a single l...

In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga

Some clarification on what's going on with Redux