Mostly non-fiction books this year. Some in English, some in German.

An Open Letter to the Communications of the ACM 29 December, 2020 Dear CACM Editor, We are a group of researchers, industry experts, academics, and educators, writing with sadness and alarm about the increasing use of repressive actions aimed at limiting…

My journey to creating a DIY photobioreactor. Some successes and some challenges.

🃏 A distributed unique ID generator inspired by Twitter's Snowflake. - bahlo/sonyflake-rs

This tutorial opens the series of articles about "Project JiJi" and describes how to add autofocus to the 16 mm Telephoto Lens mounted on the Raspberry Pi HQ Camera. The repository includes the board design, configuration files, firmware, and software to…

As parts of the Twitter application grow, we can scale demands on capacity by adding more instances or replicas to a respective service cluster (i.e., horizontal scaling)

Nervous about writing this because it’s such a loaded conversation - but part of me is dreading going back to work next week because I can’t work the hours I did in 2020 again, & yet I’m struggling to see how I can avoid doing so. 1/

Astronomers have found ghostly circles of radio emission, hanging in space like cosmic smoke rings. What are they? No one knows. The race is on to find out.

The regulations relax the distinctions between commercial and recreational drone use.

MF DOOM, the British-born rapper known for his masked "super villain" stage persona, expert rhyming abilities, and fondness for obscure pop culture samples, has died at the age of 49.

The United Kingdom's Brexit transition period expired at 11pm last night, ending a 48-year history with the European project.

(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. short sellers lost billions more on the electric-vehicle maker than any other company in 2020, as bears got severely burned by the stock’s surge to new highs.With shares up over 730%, Tesla bears have seen more than $38 billion in…

It’s impossible to work with docker containers without docker images. In this post I want to talk about what makes docker images possible…

A comprehensive deep dive into the design of Roland's legendary DCO

The legendary designer on rejecting violence in games, trying to be a good boss, and building Nintendo’s Disneyland.

Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.