Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the ‘missing link’ from Tel Lachish - Volume 95 Issue 381

Protocol is a command-line tool to display ASCII RFC-like protocol header diagrams for both existing network protocols or user-defined ones (using a very simple syntax). Protocol is written in Python and it's open-source software.

Disclaimer: The post is more about understanding LUTs and HaldCLUTs and writing methods from scratch to apply these LUTs to an image rather than coming up with CLUTs themselves from scratch. Outlin…

Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever?

🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry. - felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth ~$70mln lmao.

Ed Balls Day is a bit of fun and the stuff of nonsense. It celebrates and remembers the day (28 April 2011) when British politician Ed Balls tweeted his name thinking he was entering it into a sear…

Iran has updated its rules on officially mined cryptocurrencies like bitcoin so they can be used more widely for import payments.

A study from Oxford Brookes University researchers has found that vertical wind turbine design is considerably more efficient than the traditional form factor in large-scale wind farms, and in a certain arrangement can increase performance by up to 15 per…

No more green bubbles.

A deep dive on why we changed Amazon S3's consistency model

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Accenture made $43B in 2019 - you've probably heard of them, but you might not be sure what they actually do. This post will help.

In 1913, 26-year-old Russian biologist Nikolai Vavilov went to the John Innes Horticultural Institute to study at the feet of legendary…

Casey's reporting for The Verge brought some of the dirty laundry that helped motivate our change of direction regarding societal politics at Basecamp onto the public record. It erased part of that fine line we try to toe between sharing as much of the inner…

Well, somebody had to find it.

Study findings: In 2018, there were just over 100 cities and municipalities offering public broadband.In 2020, that number increased to over 560 cities and municipalities offering public broadband,...