The Malleable Systems Collective catalogs and experiments with malleable software and systems that reset the balance of power in computing

A few years ago I was working on a contract negotiation with Splunk, and we kept running into what felt like a pretty unreasonable pricing structure. They wanted some number of millions of dollars for a three year license, which felt like a high price to…

Advertising rates on the platform have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic

The latest U.S. data proves the world is in its steepest freefall ever—and the old economic and political playbooks don’t apply.

A layperson’s guide to the coming new internet.

I received an email from John Graham-Cumming telling me my code was in the original Terminator movie. And it's true! Here's the still from the movie:

John H Conway on the creation of his Game of Life. Conway playlist: http://bit.ly/ConwayNumberphile
More at: http://youtu.be/E8kUJL04ELA
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Including the indirect roles of John von Neumann and Martin Gardner.…

In 2001, postal workers, for a brief moment, had a chance to reorganize how postal policy operated. But their health and safety was traded away in favor of cheap and fast mail.

Six super-short sci-fi stories that explore the post-COVID-19 world.

DJ your own 3D world

A 3D metropolis right in your browser, inspired by the original project from 15 years ago.

AKA Anycast-Pi-hole-as-a-Service... but even better!

As the entire music industry canceled or postponed their live shows for the next few months, ticket brokers were feeling the sting. We already reported on secondhand brokers like Stubhub planning to petition the government for bailout money, but looks like…

Rename files in linux / bash using mv command without typing the full name two times - mv.sh

6-5-0-who? The 6502 is an iconic processor that dominated home computing in the late 70s and early to mid 80s. It was used in machines ra...