Research in programming languages offers powerful tools, but our systems of notation stymie outsiders. Can we change our notational approach and broaden our audience—without compromising on c…

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Reaching a perfect 100 Performance score in Lighthouse by faking a JS widget, optimizing frontend, and updating a server environment.

List and overview of fines and penalties under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, DSGVO)

A simple and robust monitoring and live-debug platform for distributed environments, designed for developers.

Introducing the – Librem AweSIM by Purism

Bare metal Raspberry Pi 3 tutorials. Contribute to bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.

The ProctorU software— even the Review+ version— is harmful and invasive to students.

Stripe, the fast-growing fintech payments company, has an interesting deal for its employees. They could be paid $20,000 to relocate from high-priced cities to lower-cost locations. Here’s the catch—the workers who take up the offer will have to take a 10%…

When I was 13, I had my first kiss, got engaged twice, performed a wedding ceremony, telepathically communicated with crystal amulets, and sang songs to cast spells. It was a mystical era in Wehnimer’s Landing, the main town in a game called GemStone III.

Robert E. Murray, the former CEO and president of the now-bankrupt Murray Energy, has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Labor for black lung benefits. For years, Murray and his company fought against federal mine safety regulations aimed at…

Analog computing with neuron-like devices could efficiently solve problems traditional computers struggle with

Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey will be quizzed by senators.

Last year, we released the experimental “Elements for VS Code” extension, giving developers the option of embedding the browser developer to

I’m delighted to announce Swift Atomics, a new open source package that enables direct use of low-level atomic operations in Swift code. The goal of this library is to enable intrepid systems programmers to start building synchronization constructs (such…

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