Visit the Doug Engelbart Institute to explore his remarkable legacy and all it inspires (official site)

EDIT (4/20/21): I am occasionally updating this post at this linked Google Doc with new information. You may wish to instead read this post there. …

Practical advice for early career software engineers.

After the ACM officially confirmed the suicided Ph.D. ’s accusation of coercion academic misconduct, University of Florida is still hidding

Mun, a programming language empowering creation through iteration.

Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor.

A Boeing 747-400BCF freighter registered VQ-BWT (MSN 24975) flying for Bermuda-based Longtail Aviation took off from runway 21 at Maastricht Aachen

Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.

TabFloater is a cross-browser extension that allows you to multitask by moving browser tabs into floating windows, similar to the “Picture-in-Picture” functionality on TVs. You can keep browsing the web in all windows at the same time.

There is a popular movement on Choosing Boring Technology started by article by Dan McKinley, followed by some discussions on Hacker News…

Facebook on Sunday deleted the main page of the Myanmar military under it standards prohibiting the incitement of violence, the company said, a day after two protesters were killed when police opened fire at a demonstration against the Feb 1 coup.

Gamers to the right, miners to the left.

I was reading the Slate Star Codex review of The Cult of Smart. Part of it discusses charter vs state schools and the allegations of fraud of various kinds undermining charter schools record of better achievement. Reading it, I realized that I took for granted…

Released in 1972, Silent Running was a kitsch take on the space movie. Lewis Gordon explores how the film anticipated 21st-Century technology.