We’re approaching the speed limit for electronic computer chips. If we want to go faster, we’ll need data-carrying photons—and some tiny lasers.

This video is about two hacks you can use to cut a log into perfectly straight and smooth boards by turning your chainsaw into a sawmill without any attachments.
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Analyzing the little guys

Recently, I worked on a project that involves filling in PDF forms programmatically.

ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows

Asciiflow in VS Code. Contribute to zenghongtu/vscode-asciiflow2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

While Kubernetes has many advantages, it also brings new security challenges.

ABSTRACT
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule between cells which has been
shown to have an inhibitory effect on some virus infections. The purpose of this study
was to examine whether NO inhibits the replication cycle of the severe acute…

A survey of techniques we’ve found useful

Find out how a single JS package can come with 19k dependencies.

Connections: An Alternative View of Change, by James Burke

Shopify's involvement with TruffleRuby began half a year ago, with the goal of furthering the success of the project and Ruby community. TruffleRuby is an alternative implementation of the Ruby language (where the reference implementation is CRuby, or MRI)…

A comprehensive list of useful questions to ask the interviewer a the end of a technical interview.

Scientists have developed a nasal Alzheimer's disease vaccine that they believe could be key to pre

With the recent release of our new multi-cloud offering, the PlanetScale engineering team achieved a feat that has never been done before: enabling a database-as-a-service to replicate across the three major cloud providers. Learn how we did it.

AES-based Synthetic IDs: authenticated deterministic encryption for 64-bit integers based on the AES-SIV MRAE construction - iqlusioninc/aes-sid

An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore - watson/awesome-computer-history

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