In this blog post, Pedro explains why we rewrote Shopify CLI into Node instead of Ruby, the tradeoffs that came with the decision, the principles we embraced in this new iteration, and the challenges and ideas ahead of us to explore.
UC Riverside chemical engineers have designed a fuel that ignites only with the application of electric current. Since it doesn’t react to flames and cannot start accidental fires during storage or transport, it is a “safe” liquid fuel.
I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting experience, and one that I realized I have to change. Using Copilot nearly full time has had some positive and negative impacts on me, and it's time to take control of how I interact with it.
Let’s say you’re on a fresh machine. Maybe you’ve just started a new job or you’ve wiped your machine. You’re about to push some code you’ve written and you get this: $ git push The authenticity of host 'github.com (140.82.121.4)' can't be established. ED25519 key fingerprint is…
Hoarding is a comfort behavior. It is done to reduce discomfort, pain, or anxiety, using some of the same 'pathways' as pleasure. It also is intertwined with attachment feelings.
A metaphor involving parking meters. Over the years, parking meters in town have evolved into a cumbersome, awkward system. Coins are heavy and you need to have them handy, meters need to be reinfo…
The problem with enforcing TPMs on consumers
Emergency special: The information we need to understand what Q* is was right in front of us, but the memes are more fun than reality.
Hacking together bits of electronics to route audio
Board games, apps, websites, and tutorials for teaching kids to code.
Projects, experiments and toys by Rafał Pastuszak
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
Possibly more than just a curiosity.
Portalled channels will be going away on 2023-07-31. Details below.
This post previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stag…
I sometimes feel like the course of my career has been one long vacillation1 between being too argumentative and too deferential. I’ve often struggled specifically in work contexts to discern when a debate was worth having. In the moment, it has often been difficult to suss out whether my
This year we are welcoming works from 1927 into the public domain in the United States, including books, periodicals, sheet music, and movies. Big events of 1927 include the first transatlantic phone call from New York to London, the formation of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the first successful…
Once upon a time, my curiosity of dependent types transitioned into an endeavour to learn how they work under the bonnet. Then I found the paper called “A Tutorial Implementation of a Dependently Typed Lambda Calculus” or just “Simply Easy” – and began reading it. However, the affairs happening there were so complex…
an unsurprising admission in Conservancy v. Vizio
A couple of days ago I was giving a little update to my website and I needed a wayto create and inject custom HTML into some of my posts.
How to leverage Python and WebAssembly to securely extend your web application capabilities using Suborbital and Wasm Labs tooling and language runtimes.
How moving from Vnode-based replication to tablets helps dynamically distribute data across the cluster, ultimately increasing ScyllaDB’s elasticity.
A hidden message left by a UCLA architect in 2011 was recently uncovered in Boelter Hall, where sharp-eyed passersby can spot a coded note in the pattern of floor tiles.
Make your own BASIC to C compiler in Python.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
So farewell then, Havant station’s 1930s railway toilets. It is doubtful whether many passengers will mourn their loss, but they are another piece of railway heritage that has slipped beyond …
A joint blog post between the Internet Archive and the IIIF Community Summary After eight years hosting an experimental IIIF service for public benefit, the Internet Archive is moving forward with important steps to make its International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) service official. Each year, the…
Earlier this week, John M. Burns, one of Britain’s great comic artists, whose work has thrilled and amazed for more than six decades, announced his retirement from comics. John M. Burns is, without a doubt, a legendary British comics creator. His extensive body of work across the last six decades and more has brought…
