The 19th-century whale hunt was a brutal business, awash with blubber, blood, and the cruel destruction of life. But between the frantic calls of “there she blows!”, there was plenty of time for creation too. Jessica Boyall explores the rich vein of illustration…

This blog covers various issues I encounter and the (sometimes creative) solutions I apply.

Omg we did it! 🤩 Thanks to the community feedback (and ya, bad press) Apple decided to remove the ContentFilterExclusionList (in 11.2 beta 2) Means socket filter firewalls (e.g. LuLu) can now comprehensively monitor/block all OS traffic!! Read more: patr…

Former Democratic presidential candidate and business owner Andrew Yang officially entered the New York City mayor’s race on Wednesday, his birthday, releasing a campaign launch video directed by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.

How I realized that this is truly the end of the Intel era.

I quite like to break things. While I’m not a QA or security professional, I have developed a knack for doing “stupid” things with software which causes it to malfunction. Some …

Examples of how to do common event, element, ajax and utility operations with plain javanoscript.

I’ve got a new Apple laptop, so I thought I’d do an Emacs build benchmark. Building Emacs is what people do on computers, right? At least if I extrapolate from myself, which is the only…

Math, Science and Technology tidbits written for the average person.

The encrypted messaging services have become the world’s hottest apps over the last week, driven by growing anxiety over the power of the biggest tech companies and privacy concerns.

A German-led police sting has taken down the \

Colleges are turning against the history of military conflict. But we forget these lessons at our peril.

Tether printed two billion dollar-backed tokens last week, a new record for the leading stablecoin project.
Over 24.6 billion tethers now circulate across Ethereum, Tron and Bitcoin’s Omni Layer, per data from Coin Metrics, up from 4.8 billion one year ago. …

It's happening. macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 is out with full custom kernel support. Expect a fun early bring-up stream tomorrow. Time to get a few hours of sleep.

In this article, we analyze the runtime, energy usage, and performance of Tensorflow training on an M1 Mac Mini and Nvidia V100. .