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Some thoughts on Mozilla for people who don’t know Mozilla.

UPDATE: I have received all my data and a full refund, and I am now self-hosting my website. I no longer have any beef with John O'Nolan and Ghost. I wish them all the best.

Kenneth Iverson’s 1964 language, APL, won him the Turing Award. His award lecture, Notation as a Tool of Thought, argued that better notations would lead people to deeper insights about mathematics. He provided a number of examples ranging across linear algebra…

Learning Rust is… an experience. An emotional journey. I’ve rarely been more frustrated than in my first few months of trying to learn Rust.
What makes it worse is that it doesn’t matter how much p...

A fungus growing near the Chernobyl site was thriving on nuclear radiation thanks to radiosynthesis, using melanin to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy. Scientists are exploring whether its radiation-absorbing properties could be used to protect…

In Independence Day speech, PM Modi said in the upcoming 1000 days nearly 6 lakh Indian villages will be connected with optical fibre.

Write code that's compatible with how your brain works.

Studies of the energy-harvesting proteins in primitive cells suggest that key features of photosynthesis might have evolved a billion years earlier than scientists thought.

Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.

The forced relocation of the northernmost city in Sweden is more than a gigantic architectural project. It is also a test for a society at the crossroads.

OpenVMS on x86 was made available to the first customer on May 15, 2020. With the 9-December Release V9.0-F, there are now dozens of external users testing the system. The V9.0-G release is scheduled for 10-February 2021.

With each release more features…

Some people have commented that the DeepL translation isn't good enough. I'll try to tweak it a bit to see what yields. Here's Part 1. Will work on Part 2 when I find time. Pardon my poor performance. Can't stare at the screen for too as I have reached my…

A Review of Paul Graham's Bel, Chris Granger's Eve, and a Silly VR Rant - bel-eve-vr.md