The human eye can distinguish millions of shades of color, subtly discriminating small differences of energy along the visual spectrum. No language, however, has words for more than about 1,000 of …

There are more container ships stuck off California than at any time since 2004. What’s behind the pileup? When can it be cleared?

As of iOS 14.4, non-debugged builds (i.e. ones run outside of XCode)
fail with a dynamic code signing error and there is no way to work
around this at the moment.
A couple of weeks ago, I started working on getting Racket CS to
compile and run on iOS and…

Writing (something like) a compiler is hard. Here I explore what some of the difficulties are, and provide some strategies to ensure you still maintain quality.

The Raspberry Pi Pico 1 series is a range of tiny, fast, and versatile boards built using RP2040, the flagship microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the UK

Experiments in Permissionless Entrepreneurship

By: John Blair, Netflix Partner Engineering

Sharon Weinberger commends a book on how a film inspired the United States to develop technology to capture everyone’s every move.

A previous post discussed a find of a Northern Song dynasty Chinese coin from England whose context suggested that it may have been a genui...

Solar2D - Awesome 2D Game Engine

Sky News speaks to Gary Numan about artist revenue from streaming as a Parliamentary inquiry looks into the economics.

Tclers wiki

Do surgeries work? Most of us assume they do, but is there any scientific evidence that they do? In this episode, I talk to Dr Ian Harris who is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is a practicing orthopedic…

Today, we’re launching our first microcontroller-class product: Raspberry Pi Pico. Priced at just $4, it is built on RP2040, a brand-new chip developed right here at Raspberry Pi. Whether you’re looking for a standalone board for deep-embedded development…

This was a multipurpose hole.

Apgar's simple, standardized score helped decrease the startlingly high infant mortality rate

My (shaky) understanding of this is that Golang's network stack attempts to parse HTTP headers as ~UTF-8 even though everyone else treats them as ASCII. If correct, this enables quite a range of interesting attacks on both clients and servers. twitter.co…

Minty chemical in catniplike plant activates their opioid systems—and acts as a mosquito repellent