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Cambridge University Press is publishing a textbook I have co-edited with five colleagues, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy, by Findley et al. With contributions by 32 authors, this book provides a thorough analysis of an interdisciplinary subject lying at the intersection of…
For the last 39 years, PostScript has been at the heart of the Mac, bringing desktop publishing, fonts, and the LaserWriter and other printers. It has been removed from Sonoma.
I think the biggest reason so many indie games “fail” is that teams enter into making huge, overly ambitious projects that take years to release before they are ready. Indie teams do not spend enough time making smaller (and less profitable) games first before transitioning to multi-year projects.
The Apache Software Foundation offers a suite of office productivity software named Apache Open Office. Based on the download page, you would never guess the last major release of the software was made available in 2014. With that bit of release history in mind, would it be fair to consider Apache Open Office as an…
A very rough statistical analysis of a casino trick used by games on your phone (n=28).
Inserting and updating data with a single query.
The Nuvem submarine cable will connect Portugal, Bermuda and South Carolina, and will be Bermuda’s first transatlantic fiber optic route.
We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.
Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and become its primary cloud provider, with models trained on AWS Trainium and Inferentia.
the quality of the music is not exactly what you are used to :-) but at least it works!
Recently, I found myself returning to a compelling series of blog posts titled Zero-cost futures in Rust by Aaron Turon about what would become the foundation of Rust’s async ecosystem and the Tokio runtime. This series stands as a cornerstone in wri…
Rates of new-onset type 2 diabetes climbed 62%—and type 1 diabetes increased 17%—among US youth after the COVID-19 pandemic began, especially in Black and Hispanic children, according to a study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open .
Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. Its relative obscurity is partially attributable to the cargo cult of “scale”. The scalability cult has decreed that there are several queue technologies with greater “scalability” than Postgres, and for that reason alone, Postgres isn’t…
Efficacy of OpenAI Fine-tuning API, Cost/Latency Considerations, Experiencing Catastrophic Forgetting, and...Getting Roasted by a Fine-tuned GPT-3.5
The nine nines. 99.9999999% of uptime. Whether the AXD301 actually deserves to be held up as a system of nine nines seems debatable. I am not particularly interested in that debate. Erlang has a strong record for reliability and a design intended to help you as a developer and operator achieve your nines. Maybe just…
Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell scripting, and a small...
“Four different learning styles” has been debunked, but learners still have to learn how they learn, and choose the paths and materials that are right for them.
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?”
Learn how to make your TypeScript npm packages accessible and usable by a wider audience in our easy-to-follow tutorial.
Yes, if you have enough CPU RAM
Fiber, a less known concept compared with coroutine, is a pretty powerful addition to cooperative multitasking. As a graphics programmer in game industry, I totally appreciate the great flexibility that fiber brings on the table. As a matter of fact, I feel the tech is a little bit underappreciated due to the lack of…
The first time it happened, I was writing a paper. The paragraphs I had just typed vanished into thin air, faster than Time Machine or Backblaze could save them. Gone. The next occurrence was during app development; Xcode suddenly flagged numerous errors in previously error-free code. My recent changes to several…
My writings about Ghostty, the terminal emulator I work on.
The latest news and updates related to Unity pricing and subscription plans.
Visual studio code tunnel Introduction Since July 2023, Microsoft is offering the perfect reverse shell, embedded inside Visual Studio Code, a widely used …
I set up a Retro PC recently. One of the reasons I did this is because I was inspired by this thread:
Chronicling, plugin systems, and six other disjointed ideas combine in an argument of how to "engineerize" software more
Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
