The strike for a cost of living adjustment earlier this year galvanized students at nearly every single campus in the University of California’s 285,000-student system. 

Run out of dishwasher detergent - here is my two ingredient dishwasher detergent hack that will get your dishes clean until you can restock.

Note: this announcement is cross-posted between the Jupyter Blog and the Executable Book Project updates blog

Sometimes to appreciate the power, versatility, and appeal of missing middle housing, it helps to go somewhere it still exists.

The corporation’s terms and conditions once specified that the company cannot be maligned in any podcast’s “advertising or messages”

:fire: Command-line tool to delete merged Git branches - hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches

Some urban planners in the Midwest think so

Vitamin D is a big deal. Recent studies have shown that patients with low Vitamin D levels are more likely to die from Covid-19 than their Vitamin D-rich counterparts,(1) and deficiency in the vitamin has been linked to seven of the ten leading causes of…

Alphabet bet big in Toronto. Toronto didn’t play along.

Young children will pass up rewards they know they can collect to explore other options, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that when adults and 4- to 5-year-old children played a game where certain choices earned them rewards, both adults and children…

In my book, A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics, I describe the Taylor Series as a “hammer for every nail.” I learned about another nail in the design of modern smartphone accelerometers from “Eight Amazing Engineering Stories” by Hammack, Ryan, and…

infecting macOS via macro-laden documents and 0days

As the Snowden leaks continue to dribble out, it has become increasingly obvious that most nations  planning for "cyber-war" have been mer...

@rnewman @lizhenry I know some awesome doc writers looking for work. My team - the entire MDN writers team and remains of dev rel - got laid off.