We rewrote critical software that powers all online storefronts on Shopify, offering the fastest online shopping experience, entirely from scratch and without downtime.

Over the past couple weeks I've been trying to work out how I want to store my game configuration. At first I started playing with XML, which was nice because I could stream a file rather than loading the entire thing into memory but I turned away from XML…

The editor behind a new academic journal that only publishes unsurprising research hopes the journal will help fix a major problem in scientific research — a bias towards surprising, unexpected results.

Following user feedback about Workers Docs, we reorganized and reformatted all of our content. The documentation is now intuitive to navigate.

This morning, multiple readers wrote in to alert us to a major Adobe gaffe. It seems the latest update to the Lightroom app for iPhone and iPad inadvertently wiped users’ photos and presets that were not already synced to the cloud. Adobe has confirmed that…

Air conditioners are a convenient way to cool down offices and homes, but they use huge amounts of energy in the process. A team of scientists has been developing an alternative solution for those warm summer months called the Cold Tube, which works by absorbing…

We are devastated to report that Big Basin, as we have known it for generations, is gone. Early reports say wildfire has consumed much of its historic facilities and we await the fate of its trees.

Slack and its counterparts ‘create problems, high-school-type problems,’ one CEO said

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TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for both Firefox developers and add-on developers. On one side…

(Reuters) - Two shareholders in self-driving car startup Zoox Inc have sued the company, alleging that a rival bid would have been better for common stockholders than a $1.3 billion offer from Amazon.com (AMZN.O) announced in June.

Our human world is soaked in light. For starters there are the 100,000 trillion photons arriving every second at every square centimeter…

A starter template for open hardware project websites.

Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.