Rust in 2022
In previous years, the core team have asked the community to write new years blog posts about Rust in the coming year. They haven't this year, but I wanted to write one anyway. However, it turned out to be harder than expected. Perhaps that's due to Rust being in an
Programs are dead, and JavaScript has killed them
And JavaScript has killed them.
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
I took a spare ThinkPad T430 and put all my home server workloads on it. Here's how it went.
Project Starline expands testing through an early access program
Project Starline's early access program allows partners to test Starline and explore how it can help them navigate the future of work.
Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
GitLab allows companies to do away with the many point solutions that have been digitally duct taped together and instead bring all DevOps functionalities together in ONE place
Why T-shaped people? (2018)
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Code vs. No-code
There was a conversation on Twitter this week that helped to clarify my thinking about something, and I wanted to share. There is a sort of tension between “code” and “no-code” (sometimes “low-code”) solutions. People who consider themselves software developers see people trying to use no-code solutions to do things…
Too Much Internet
I consider myself fairly “up” with popular trends. Perhaps I don’t know every celebrity crush, or every new thing that every TikTok…
On CAD
With cheap 3D printers and PCB manufacturing services you could conceivably design something and have a physical prototype on your desk in the same week. It is quite common to see hardware projects on github that contain firmware source code, STLs for 3D printed parts, and Gerber files for PCBs. To assemble them you…
Meditations on an inexpensive laundry basket
I’m down to a cost of 20¢ a year and falling.
Safari on iOS can overlap multiple full-screen videos
I just discovered an annoying behavior of Safari on iOS: full-screen videos can overlap each other and make it hard to close them without force closing Safari.
C# 11 Preview Updates – Raw string literals, UTF-8 and more
C# 11 features are coming along nicely and the most recent release features all sorts of goodies including updates to string literals, pattern matching, checked user-defined operators, and an update on !!.
Oracle is the #1 contributor to the core of Linux in 5.18
By the metric of
Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever – except she was a fraud
If you think that people who deliberately engage in dubious scientific practices like plagiarism, falsification of results, or attendance at fake conferences represent the worst of scientific misconduct—then you have clearly never heard of Elena Ceausescu.
Move fast or die: Key startup lessons
Lessons from Facebook, Dropbox, and SPC on the singular importance of speed.
The Penguin Random House trial
The Penguin Random House trial is ripping the lid off publishing
CalyxOS now supports Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
Android 12, Pixel 6
Shared Libraries as Executables
Typically you either have an executable or a shared library, but can you have an executable shared library too?
A CIA website was out of date about who runs the UK
A guest post from Tony Bowden about his efforts to build an open source dataset of world leaders inside of Wikidata, the structured-data version of Wikipedia.