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Hi Folks! Meet David, the magnificent masterpiece sculpted by Michelangelo at the start of the 16th century. A photo of his face with that curious furrowed brow featured on our very first anti-cyber…
Bill Atkinson worked mostly at home, but whenever he made significant progress he rushed in to Apple to show it off to anyone who would appreciate it. This time, he visited the Macintosh offices at Texaco Towers to show off his brand new oval routines, which were implemented using a really clever algorithm.
Written in collaboration with Joseph Miller. See the discussion of this post over on LessWrong.
Starting today, there’s a new, convenient way to see what features and improvements are coming to Safari and other applications that use WebKit.
It is important to provide credit.
Learn how Bun is able to cut install times by up to 25×. Bun skips Node.js's overhead with direct system calls, cache-friendly data layouts, OS-level copy-on-write, and full-core parallelism.
This article is part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
In 2015, I gave a talk in which I called Donald Knuth the Patron Saint of Yak Shaves . The reason is that Donald Knuth achieved the most perfect and long-running yak shave: TeX.
A browser extension that enables Chromecast support for casting web apps (like YouTube, Netflix or BBC iPlayer).
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets...
As of September 2018, I am moving Probably Overthinking It to a new location . Blogger has been an excellent host; so far, this blog has ...
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.5.0.
To help data teams stay on top of the changes happening in the industry, this article reviews an updated set of data infrastructure architectures.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sent by abusing…
GraphQL support is in development for PostgreSQL + Supabase.
In 2005 my National Guard unit was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. My MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) in the Army was 92A, which is basically a logistics and supplies...
This post is part of a series about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Click on the blog tag “huskyai” to see related posts. Overview: …
Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL
This is an extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. (Send improvements to @charliepark .)
NOTE: This post was originally written after JetBrains announced a controversial new licensing model. Many people spoke out about it. The ...
A common refrain is that threads can do everything that async/await can, but simpler. So why would anyone choose async/await?
In recent weeks this post has gone viral through several newsletters and aggregator sites, for all the wrong reasons. It has been rather bizarre to see people taking a post which is, and only ever was, about specific issues involving UK digital regulation and surveillance capitalism in the UK’s specific political and…
Ten years ago, we built Firefox to keep the Internet in each of our hands — to create choice and put people in control of their lives online. Our focus h
New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.
As a rule of thumb business owners should be primarily focused on delighting their customers in any way possible. Every subtle interaction should be closely optimized for customer enchantment, and a decision as simple as where to park your car can subconsciously attract or detract a customer.
