Here’s what’s become of them.

I used to be an anti-wire crusader. I hated the clutter of cables, and my tendency to unconsciously chew on them if they got anywhere near my face. But running into bug after tricky wireless bug—most…

Suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better.

The Nintendo Game Boy contains an audio amplifier chip for sound through a speaker or headphones. In this post, I reverse-engineer this ch...

Explains standard paper sizes like ISO A4
that are today widely used all over the world.

Bob McDonald's blog: Researchers calculate the nearest is probably 17,000 light years away

Nature Communications - Current environmental impact mitigation neglects over-consumption from affluent citizens as a primary driver. The authors highlight the role of bottom-up movements to...

For Baldwin, the past had always been bent in service of a lie. Could a true story be told?

gRPC over WebRTC. Contribute to jsmouret/grpc-over-webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

It’s too late to "conserve" our digital privacy — but to preserve what's left, we must stop defining people as commodities

This is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure.  It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents.  It represents solely the perspective and opinions of myself, in my…

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements. The only problem is: they go all blurry and…

Over and over again, I’ve seen people fix some wireless-related problem and go “wow, I had no idea how much better this could be!" • Wireless protocols often silently operate in an extremely degraded state that makes them substantially worse than wired equivalents.