Urban Decay: Exploring an old abandoned particle collider facility
Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society
WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream
Why WSGI is not as big of a problem as you would believe and why framework independent pluggable applications don’t work in practice.
Low-level x86 code compression for 64k intros
This is about the “secret ingredient” in my EXE packer kkrunchy, which was used in our (Farbrausch) 64k intros starting from “fr-030: Candytron”, and also in a lot of other …
Slide Design for Developers
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Searching for "semicolon injection" bugs in embedded Linux devices
Introduction I recently bought a D-Link DCS-2121 surveillance camera. This is good stuff: Megapixel camera + microphone + speaker WiFi,...
Announcing Heroku for Logo... powered by Heroku
Since launching Ruby support in 2007, we’ve been constantly expanding the platform to accommodate more application types and to make the platform more...
LLVM 3.0 Type System Rewrite
One of the most pervasive IR (and thus compiler API) changes in LLVM 3.0 was a complete reimplementation of the LLVM IR type system. This change was long overdue (the original type system lasted from LLVM 1.
The Leave
Whatever we *expected*, we all *hoped* we’d seen our last Steve Jobs medical leave.
A Python Optimization Anecdote
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0
Recapping the criticisms made about MongoDB.
jwz: Apple recently broke Ctrl-Y
Ever since MacOS 10.0 was released, text fields have supported Emacs bindings for the single-character Control commands, showing that there were people inside Apple (and, presumably, NeXT) who were right-thinking and sensible. But some time late in the 10.6 release cycle, and continuing into 10.7.1, the binding for…
What's new in Firefox 7
v.7.0, offered to release channel users on September 27th, 2011 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest released version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS GovCloud (US)
Google offers researchers 1 billion computing core-hours
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Should you launch at a conference?
Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello, and both times, i…
I've Written a Book
Executive summary: I've written a book. If you like this site, you'll love the book. You can buy it printed on paper or as a DRM-free ebook on the Pragmatic Programmers website .
GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 released with Go programming language support
The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.6.4.
The Bad Board Member
Over the last 40 years the U.S. has evolved an entrepreneurial ecosystem with two of the most unlikely partners – venture capital investors and technology entrepreneurs. This alliance has led to an…