This post tells the story of how we leveraged a textbook data structure in our core platform and achieved a 15x speed up for a key data processing step.

Building a 4-node cluster for experimenting with the distributed operating system.

A website with The Big Lebowski quotes was blocked for no reason by Facebook. Looking for justice at a tech company that has automated the…

The principle of shielding is creating a conductive layer completely surrounding the object you want to shield. This was invented by Michael Faraday and this system is known as a Faraday cage.

The ninth annual js13kGames competition wrapped up last weekend with over 220 games submitted. All created in a month and in less than 13kB of JavaScript. For anyone not in the know, js13kGames is a

In distributed systems theory, CALM presents a result that delineates the frontier of the possible.

We’re changing our license as we’ve become aware that there are risks associated with permissive open source licenses that corporations that don’t care about open source are happy to take advantage of.

Solar power met 100 per cent of South Australia’s demand on Sunday for the first time. It won’t be the last.

A chip-making process pioneered in the Netherlands will let smartphones take the next leap forward.

Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Shi and colleagues summarize the exceptional amount of research that has characterized acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and...

At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.

Eclogiselle is intended to be a compendium of free resources for small communities with paid services available below $5000. In fact, I hope...

A good layout makes users stay on a site because it makes important stuff easily accessible and intuitive to find. A lousy layout frustrates users, who leave because they can

Why do moving rulers shrink (length contraction) and moving clocks run slow (time dilation) such that everyone measures the same speed of light c, regardless of their relative motions? Einstein resolved ...

San Francisco’s sky-high apartment rents are falling fast.