I love text layout, and have been working with it in one form or other for over 35 years. Yet, knowledge about it is quite arcane. I don’t believe there is a single place where it’s all properly written down. I have some explanation for that: while basic…

When you run the Ubuntu installer, there’s an option to dual-boot Ubuntu with an existing Windows installation. There’s also an option to encrypt your Ubuntu...

Take Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt's thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software! This is what Mr. Brandon Rhodes did. It's not…

When the clocks went back, the horological conservator at the royal castle changed 400 clocks by hand.

Some Senate Democrats are seeking to empower regulators to protect local news outlets, accusing tech giants such as Google and Facebook of “unfair business practices,” according to a new committee report.

As I look back to over a decade ago, there are a few things I wish I'd started
doing sooner. Habits that could have helped made me grow faster and in a more
focused way. This is the advice I'd give my younger self, who has just landed
their first

Although it's the end of Hacktoberfest, it's not too late for an open source nut cracking challenge. This is a challenge that will benefit not only our current and future devices but also the…

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The controversial jailed antivirus software mogul John McAfee followed up his virus-fighting work with one of the first social networks, a competitor to AOL Instant Messenger. Really.

In 1981, Harvard law professor Roger Fisher, director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, published a thought experiment in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists: what if the codes to launch nuclear wa…

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From the Starlink ToS

Stolen data appears to have included personal identification records and notes about therapy sessions.

How the IC and EM tracks are different, and why I switched back.

Thirty five years ago I became an Amiga user. One of the first, actually. This is a meandering and reminiscent post of sorts, written to mark the Amiga’s 35th birthday and the 35 years I have known and loved the … Continue reading →

Google’s dominance of the search engine landscape could be under threat with reports that Apple is ramping up its own search engine.

Today, I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of contributors to the Fedora Project: our latest release, Fedora 33, is here! This is a big release with a lot of change, but I believe all that work will also make it a comfortable one…