Fish (the "friendly interactive
shell") has
the explicit goal of being
more user-friendly than other shells.
It features a modern command-line interface with syntax highlighting, tab
completion, and auto-suggestions out of the box
(all with no configuration…

A series of research papers renews hope that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achievable.

This is a response to the Rust call for blogs 2021 and also a followup to last year’s entry. It will be entirely focused on GUI.

Rolls-Royce has announced on its blog that the company has completed testing of the technology it plans to use in its line of electrically powered planes—one of which they expect will break speed records ...

In UK first, supermarket’s five-year commitment aims to offer more sustainable options

Angela Merkel and other leading politicians continued to lobby for the payments group even as the warning signs grew

Confidential documents reveal the company leaders’ deception about the consequences of Prime Day, its robots and more.

At a sad time at which the world has just lost Steve Jobs, it is well to reflect on some of the things which he, his passion, and his creations have given us, as now the technical community should take many of these upon its collective shoulders.

Thames Water says design is more likely to leak as Waterwise warns 400m litres are being lost from UK toilets a day

The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public.

The kit means a paramedic can "fly" up a fell in 90 seconds rather than go 30 minutes by foot.

A newer update than this one is out! Check it out here
New Features and Additions

Windows: Added Virtual Camera, allowing you to use the OBS output as a camera in other apps on your computer. Supp...

In my recent post on the current hearings at the Old Bailey over Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he would almost certainly be locked away for the rest of his life for the crime of doing journalism, I made two main criticisms of the…

A visual introduction to probability and statistics.

A few years ago I did a lot of thinking and writing about floating-point math. It was good fun, and I learned a lot in the process, but sometimes I go a long time without actually using that hard-e…

Update (11th April 2020): This paper has been accepted at ACM Web Science 2020. A preprint can be accessed on arXiv. Nation states around the world engage in web censorship using a variety of legal and technical methods. India is...

As you all may know, I watched and posted my lecture notes of the whole MIT Introduction to Algorithms course. In this post I want to summarize all the topics that were covered in the lectures and point out some of the most interesting things in them. Actually…

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