As has been noticed, several Google services were down for some users from 6:00 to 6:23 p.m. PDT. A pool of servers that route traffic to application backends crashed, and users on that particular pool experienced the outage. GCP was not affected.

Take control of your Reminders with Strongweek, the weekly, monthly, yearly planner app for IOS - now with homescreen widgets and Apple Reminders sync. Forget due dates. Focus on what you need to get done this week.

This week we continue our four-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, addendum) look at pre-modern iron and steel production. Last week we prospected our iron ore and extracted it from the ground and did some…

A security drone for your home may seem like a cool idea but do the benefits outweigh the risks?

Last Updated: June 7, 2023Originally written by Jaakko PiipponenThis post is aimed at CEOs and founders who are looking to upgrade their SaaS Financial

Apple Inc. will let users of Facebook Inc.’s online events product use the social network’s own payment method through the end of the year, temporarily bypassing the iPhone maker’s typical 30% cut.

Urban legend says that Mona Lisa's eyes will follow you as you move around the room. This interactive digital portrait brings the phenomenon to life..

My job these days is teaching TLA+ and formal methods: specifying designs to find bugs in them. But just knowing the syntax isn’t enough to write specs, and it helps to have examples to draw from. I recently read Chris Siebenmann’s Even in Go, concurrency…

In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision…

It has only been a few months since the Emacs community went through an extended discussion on how to make the Emacs editor "popular
again". As the community gears up for the Emacs 28 development cycle,
(after the Emacs
27.1 release in August)
that discussion…

Pictures created from old observations show the void’s stormy evolution over the past decade.

Software development is hard. Time zones are hard. Dealing with time zones in software development? Yeah, harder.
Here are 4 places where time zones might differ; and 4 personal bug stories for each case. I'll be referring to the same app for each s...

Authenticated key-value store (i.e. an urkel tree) - GitHub - chjj/liburkel: Authenticated key-value store (i.e. an urkel tree)

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers. Running total of raises negotiated due to this essay: $15M+.

With the threat of another big internet blackout looming, companies are creating workarounds for Iranians using satellite dishes as conduits for the web.