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Racket v8.5
Racket version 8.5 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org. As of this release: Racket's new `-y` flag automatically keeps compiled files up to date, reducing subsequent load times. Error-message realms allow Racket-hosted langua...
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Signing Git commits with your SSH key (2021)
You could always sign Git commits with a GPG key, but now your SSH key is just as powerful!
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CloudFront vs. Cloudflare, and how to reduce response times for both (2021)
Learn how to reduce response times for both CloudFront and Cloudflare.
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Continental Europe successfully synced with Ukraine and Moldova power systems
Following an urgent request by Ukrenergo and Moldova for emergency synchronisation, the TSOs of Continental Europe agreed to start on 16 March 2022 the trial synchronisation of the Continental European Power System with the power systems of Ukraine and Moldova. This acceleration of the synchronisation project ongoing…
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Back to India
This should provide some insight on why I made the move from the US back to India after a few years of work. And no, my work visa wasn’t expiring. The intent is not to try and convince more people to do the same, but at least get people in similar situations to talk about […]
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Signal is secure, as proven by hackers
Users of the Signal messaging app got hit by a hacker attack. We analyze what happened and why the attack demonstrates that Signal is reliable.
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Git.io deprecation: Active links to be maintained in a read-only state
2022-04-27 Update: While the git.io url redirection service is read-only and use of the service is limited, we have received feedback from developers and academic researchers who have published git.io…
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The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy of One Laptop per Child
Winner, 2020 Best Information Science Book Award Winner, 2020 Sally Hacker Prize Winner, 2021 Computer History Museum Prize
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Dark Moon: The Inevitable Collapse of Luna
Luna/UST went from a collective market capitalization of ~$50 billion to now down 99%. The collapse of the Luna/UST Ponzi scheme occurred even faster than anyone expected, but this implosion was perfectly predictable.
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Buy things, not experiences
There’s a phrase going around that you should “buy experiences, not things.” People, it’s claimed, think that having a lot of stuff is w...
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Vanced Discontinuation
Since many users are having trouble understanding the reason for the discontinuation of vanced, we wanted to brief you on all the expected theories with their answers. Vanced NFT/LTT theory: 1. Vanced NFT:- Some users believe that Google had sent cease & desist letter because the Vanced Team had posted NFT to earn…
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Street View turns 15
Celebrating 15 years of Street View with new product and feature updates.
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Plasma 5.25
Plasma 5.25 brings new features and concepts to the desktop environment.
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Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling
Strolling aimlessly – instead of having set routes and set sites to see – is something I’ve always enjoyed doing, especially in big or new cities. I discovered that there was a French term for this aimless wandering, considered to be a kind of art. And that’s flânerie, while the person who engages in this…
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Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview
Question : Do developers in your organization have full admin rights on their own computer? Rationale : While blocking admin rights might ma...
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The end of big data
Databricks, Snowflake, and the end of an overhyped era.
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Templating in HTML
A technical write-up about using the template HTML element
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Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B
Announcing GPT-NeoX-20B, a 20 billion parameter model trained in collaboration with CoreWeave.
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Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)
We are so happy to announce that after 6 months some 1.5K+ commits, we are ready to show you a preview of Nyxt 3! As always, there's a lot of new features (bugs), so your feedback is critical!
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Hexells – Self-Organising System of Cells Drawing Textures [WebGL]
is a Self-Organising System of cells, that was trained to build textures using neighbour communication only. This work exposes the relation between the life of an individual cell, and the cell collective as a whole.
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On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days
culture by algorithm in the 21st century
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Mortgages are a manufactured product
Mortgages are popularly thought of as loans, but to understand the industry, it's better to model them as complex manufactured products.
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Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)
Some of Stephen Wolfram’s “productivity hacks” to make his days and projects more productive. Daily life, desk environment, outside the office, presentation setup, filesystem organization, Wolfram Notebook systems, databases, personal analytics.
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Solving Wordle in 3.64 guesses on average, 99.4% of the time
Hey all, I’ve been enjoying wordle, the puzzle game recently but also wondered how a program might do at it.