10 fantastic books written by developers for developers. Helping you with your career, the cloud, how to improve your writing and much more!

On 6 January 2021, 53 people were arrested in Hong Kong under the National Security Law, including the organisers and candidates in last July’s democratic primaries where over 600,000 Hong Kongers voted for pro-democracy candidates for the upcoming Legislative…

Edward Snowden and others have reacted to news, and ensuing celebration, that Facebook will ban content from Donald Trump for two weeks by warning that giving such power to social media platforms sets a dangerous precedent.

Here's a fun idea from James Stanley: a CSS file (that presumably updates daily) containing CSS custom properties for "seasonal" colors (e.g. spring is

He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.

Farmers ‘relieved’ as chemical sanctioned for emergency use, despite EU prohibition backed by UK on using it outoors

Three thousand days and counting: Nasa's Curiosity rover continues its extraordinary exploration of Mars.

When I ask my colleagues why mmap is faster than system calls, the answer is inevitably “system call overhead”: the cost of crossing the…

The security state that failed to keep DC safe doesn't need invasive technology to meet this moment—it needs more civilian oversight.

After years of placid admonishments, the tech world came out in force against President Trump this past week following the violent assault of the U.S.

In its biggest original programming foray, Roku has bought exclusive global distribution rights to the portfolio of Quibi.

Crime Science - Pump-and-dump schemes are fraudulent price manipulations through the spread of misinformation and have been around in economic settings since at least the 1700s. With new...

(For the new reader, there is a famous essay called Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. It has since spawned a long list of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About....) Everyone has fingerprints! The BBC has a grim tale of a family with a genetic mutation…

Software development is a funny profession. It covers people who do stuff ranging from register twiddling in device drivers and OS guts, to people who serve web content, to “big data” s…

President Donald Trump has been suspended from Facebook and permanently banned from Twitter, following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

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