In 2016 I designed a plain-text file format for crossword puzzle data, and then spent a couple of months building a micro-data-pipeline, scraping tens of thousands of crosswords from various sources. Then, having all those crosswords in a simple format, I…

How distributed serverless compute changes the game on whats possible

Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course

From a Modernist desert retreat to a camouflaged turf lodge, a new book, Houses: Extraordinary Living, explores the diversity of some of the world’s most awe-inspiring abodes.

Google has tried on and off for years to hide full URLs in Chrome's address bar, because apparently long web addresses are scary and evil. Despite the

This book is a must-have for anyone serious about rendering in real time. Experts in rendering share their knowledge by explaining everything from nitty-gritty techniques that will improve any ray tracer to mastery of the new capabilities of current and future…

Fox News published digitally altered and misleading images on its website's homepage Friday that made a demonstration in Seattle, in which a group of largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters have occupied six city blocks, appear violent and dangerous.

Obviously we’re going to talk about this today: Ok, so. Up until this year, I would’ve told you that there are two general kinds of financial bubbles.  The first kind of bubble is where everyo…

ProsperStack is customer lifecycle optimization for subnoscription businesses.

Two people with beta thalassaemia and one with sickle cell disease no longer need blood transfusions after their blood stem cells were gene edited and put back in their bodies

hot reload your python code! Contribute to say4n/hotreload development by creating an account on GitHub.

Some people are saying that these clauses are known upfront before joining. Well, that wasn't the case for me when I joined Amazon. Let me tell you how Amazon squeezed non-competitive clauses into my contract about 2 years into my job in a very unethical…

Executive summary The fact that different professional cyclists use very different hill descent positions indicates that there is no consensus in the peloton on which position is really superior, and that most cyclists did not test different positions, for…

The roots of Objective-C began at ITT in the early 1980s in a research group led by
Tom Love investigating improving programmer productivity by an order of magnitude,
a concern motivated by the perceived "software crisis" articulated in the late 1960s.
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Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API. Contribute to pion/webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.

I was really surprised to learn that Swift recently adopted Smalltalk keyword syntax: [Accepted] SE-0279: Multiple Trailing Closures . Tha...

GitHub getting on board legitimizes movement aimed at removing racially-charged language from software.

Native Americans have been particularly hard hit by COVID-19, yet tribal leaders say that federal and state governments are blocking their efforts to gather data on how the virus is spreading aroun…

The famous psychoanalyst’s thoughts about Sri Ramana Maharshi.