A few months ago, someone noted in the comments that they hadn't heard about the Therac-25 incident. I was surprised, and went off to do an informal survey of developers I know, only to discover that only about half of them knew what it was without searching…

The city issued 2,869,810 traffic and parking tickets in fiscal year 2019, with fines totaling $375,916,124. That averages out over the year to more than four tickets and about $543 in fines for every man, woman and child living in the city, including those…

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Faster JavaScript calls by removing the arguments adaptor frame

Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.

[Note: an IPFS and PDF version of this paper is available. The views expressed below are solely my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer or any organization I advise.] Abstr…

Welcome to this month’s community update. As many of you know, we have now entered the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, which means that all manufacturing and related business activities have ground to a halt.

It’s not accepting new users yet, though.

Around the world, there are regulations for "influencers". Those regulations make sure that if someone is paid to endorse a product, they have to declare that payment to the people watching. But why does no-one on TV, or film, or anywhere else have to do…

On journalism, ideas, "ideas", free speech, and tech.

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different ways to use Linux.

Straightforward C#/Java code is extremely difficult to parallelize, multi-thread, etc. As a result, straightforward C#/Java code will use less and less of the total processing power on a box (beca...

An overview of the benefits of F#

The long read: Decades’ worth of research proves that chemicals used to make bacon do cause cancer. So how did the meat industry convince us it was safe?

As his California dream soured, Kieran Blubaugh’s garage was broken into, his...

This article is now available in Japanese: 紙と鉛筆でビットコインをマイニング：1日に0.67ハッシュ and Russian: Майним Bitcoin с помощью бумаги и ручки . I decided...

The series only became a runaway success in the former Yugoslavia. What was the secret behind its dedicated cult following?

Simple ray tracer written in Rust. Contribute to dranikpg/simple-rays development by creating an account on GitHub.