In the early 2000s social media sites like Facebook and Twitter weren’t commonplace yet. Even text messages, at ten cents each, were something to be rationed. For many teenagers the primary means of communication outside school was AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).…

It took scientists 375 years to discover the eighth continent of the world, which had been hiding in plain sight all along. But mysteries still remain.

Many environmentalists have opposed nuclear power, citing its dangers and the difficulty of disposing of its radioactive waste. But a Pulitzer Prize-winning author argues that nuclear is safer than most energy sources and is needed if the world hopes to radically…

Meltano is an open source data movement tool built for data engineers that gives them complete control and visibility of their pipelines.

Most games built with Unity 2018 and Unity 2019 do not work on Mac OS X 10.9. They will launch initially, and occasionally even get as far as the main menu, but invariably crash before entering gam...

The largest and oldest electric power cooperative in Texas filed for bankruptcy protection in Houston on Monday, citing a disputed $1.8 billion debt to the state's grid operator.

Meta-Note: I’m sorry it’s been so long between articles; for better or worse writing here is something that I do for fun, and sometimes work and family get in the way.

Handling the response to our missing domain

Experiments in Permissionless Entrepreneurship

GitHub's Status Page - Incident on 2021-03-01 09:59 UTC.

HK has just jailed almost the entire pro-democracy opposition. 47 people - the leading pro-democracy candidates preparing to contest LegCo elections last year - were today charged with subversion under the national security law, denied bail & jailed pending…

The landscape of security is changing quite a bit. We've gone from basic username and password to 2FA, facial recognition, fingerprint recognition, and so

It begins in October 1927, with a single camera exhibited in Moscow at an Exposition of Photographic Technique in the new Soviet capital, Moscow. Bostelman’s camera is a small 35mm camera with a si…

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

While investigating a performance issue in a library I am working on, I noticed that parsing a particular document (warning: very large file) causes the program to spend a lot of time in memchr (ro...

Notable improvements and fixes

Undo and redo support for the command-line editor and pager search (#1367). By default, undo is bound to Control+Z, and redo to Alt+/.
Builtins can now output before...