Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services
Bard gets its most capable model yet, along with new and expanded features.
Rebuilding a featured news section with modern CSS: Vox news
Rebuilding Vox News featured section with modern CSS.
Get It Done
Too often people do the best they can with what they have when they should instead get it done
The many faces of DISTINCT in Postgres (2017)
3 interesting uses of DISTINCT in PostgreSQL
Asynchronous Rust on Cortex-M microcontrollers
A community and blog for embedded software makers
No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
Although users worldwide benefit from PDF, adoption of ISO standardized PDF technology has lagged because:
The cheapest flash microcontroller you can buy is actually an Arm Cortex-M0+
Puya's 10-cent PY32 series is complicating the RISC-V narrative and has me doubting I'll ever reach for an 8-bit part again.
PostgreSQL Encryption: The Available Options
On an episode of Postgres FM , the hosts had a (very brief) discussion of data encryption in PostgreSQL. While Postgres FM is a podcast well worth a subscribe, the hosts aren’t data security experts, and so as someone who builds a queryable database encryption system , I found the coverage to be somewhat… lacking. I…
Bing Jail
A short story on how my website lost all indexed pages in Bing, affecting my presence in DuckDuckGo, secret blacklisting and classification as a splog by Bing AI
Tips for a healthier Postgres database (2021)
Craig's year end wrap-up of 5 things you can do for a healthier Postgres database next year.
Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
Reproducible Git Bundles
Describes how to create reproducible and deterministic one-file bundles of git repositories for use cases such as backups.
Making "LCD, Please"
The de-make no one asked for. Play on itch.io I love a good set of limitations and on my way to making games with miasma and wind I’ve stopped off at the Game & Watch tier. LCD. Why. I played a lot of LCD games when I was a kid. They were mostly terrible. Before the Gameboy existed, mostly terrible in your pocket was…
Pyroscope and Grafana Phlare join together
We’re happy to announce that Pyroscope, the company behind the open source continuous profiling project of the same name, is now part of Grafana Labs.
Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy
Python and Go have distinct qualities that can complement each other.
Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone
Roadrunner is a reusable VTOL autonomous air vehicle with twin turbojet engines, high-subsonic speed, modular payloads, and AI-driven autonomy for versatile air defense missions.
Mysterious object is being dragged into the black hole at the Milky Way’s center
Research by UCLA and Keck Observatory scientists concluded that the object, X7, could be a debris cloud from a stellar collision.
After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Time Work
Amidst 130,000 tech layoffs, 62% of knowledge workers say they don’t feel secure committing to one employer anymore.
Haskell in Production: Standard Chartered
In this article of our Haskell in Production series, we interview José Pedro Magalhães from Standard Chartered – a multinational bank that has over 6 million lines of code written in their own dialect of Haskell.
You and Your Research (1986)
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
The EU proposed CRA law may have unintended consequence for the Python ecosystem
After reviewing the proposed Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Act , the PSF has found issues that put the mission of our organization and the health of the open-source software community at risk. While we support the stated goals of these policies of increasing security and accountability for European…
Hue Light Hack
In a fun-filled deep dive into a Philip's Hue Color light bulb, I disassembled, analyzed, and ultimately restored it to working order. Over the course of the hack, I dismantled the bulb’s interior,...
Warm liquid from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault
UW oceanographers discovered warm, chemically distinct liquid shooting up from the seafloor about 50 miles off Newport. They named the unique underwater spring
What's next for Tor and privacy online?
Ten years ago, Edward Snowden shared documents with the press that exposed the extent of the U.S. government’s mass surveillance program – and used Tor to protect himself while doing so. How has the perception of privacy changed since then, and what are the Tor Project’s challenges for the year to come?
Building ClickHouse Cloud from scratch in a year
Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a serverless software as a service (SaaS) offering in under a year? In this blog post, we will describe how we built ClickHouse Cloud from the ground up