Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that ingest those small almost-square plastic "floppy disks" and we only really see them now in Computer Museums. But there's a lot going on in that humble square of plastic and I wanted to write down what I've learned so far.
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This article has been revised with recollections and corrections from former Apple employee Al Kossow, some good folks on Hacker News and t...
I have a laptop. Sometimes I run VMs on it, and some of those VMs run DOS. When a DOS VM does not have any power management, the laptop quickly lets me know by kicking up the fan speed. It is Very Annoying . So annoying that I really want to avoid the situation.
A thorough walkthrough and explanation of the process of getting an ASN, which I wish I knew when I got mine. Hopefully this will prevent readers from headaches and getting scammed.
Back in 2016, I reported on a rumor that was circulating about employee dissatisfaction at Meta (then, Facebook). Developers, it seemed, were unhappy with the ... Read more
21% of listings were affordable to the typical household, down from 40% in 2021. White households had three times as many options as Black households.
If you are reading this then you most likely know about the recent news from reddit. As a result of these events, Lemmy has grown immensely in the last two weeks. The number of monthly active users has increased over 25 times, from 1.000 to 27.000 at time of writing. Suddenly Lemmy has become one of the largest…
Today we are very excited to launch a new initiative that will start shaping the future of WebAssembly on both the browser and the server. WASI was ann...
Seeing My Dad as More than a Monster
Experiences navigating disintegrating American health care institutions, and what they might imply for life in 2037
This is a collection of keyboard and trackpad workflows that I accumulated over the last 7 years of using a MacBook. Here are some important abbreviations I am using in this article: | Term | Meaning | Explanation | ...
Because mauve databases have the most RAM
The Rapid Collapse of the 16th Largest Bank in America
And I recorded it. Here's "Sailor's Song."
This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )
Potable water, and not much of it.
In this blog post, we will delve into the major enhancements introduced in Ruby 3.3’s IRB, as well as what’s currently planned for the next year.
I was a Python developer for some time and one great joy of Python is that you have an expressive language that you can use for your serious apps as well as for your hacky little one-off script or bespoke pieces of automation. By expressive I mean that typing very little can give you a lot of progress towards your…
Richard Feynman recounts an amazing anecdote about philosophy of science; we trace it to a forgotten University of Michigan research programme into ‘floor cues’.
The risks and harms associated with drinking alcohol have been systematically evaluated over the years and are well documented. The World Health Organization has now published a statement in The Lancet Public Health: when it comes to alcohol consumption, there is no safe amount that does not affect health.
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HyperTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts – all wonderful tools in their day, but none has brought coding to the crowd.
