TL;DR: Some Linux distros and even different kernel versions within a distro have disabled IRQ time accounting. In such case, your monitoring tools will report zero time spent in hardware interrupt handlers (shown as %hi, %irq, hiq, etc). It’s easy to check…

In this section, we're going to use the Complete Pokemon Dataset dataset to visualise the co-occurrence of Pokémon types from generations one to eight. We'll make this happen using a chord diagram.

Faster JavaScript calls by removing the arguments adaptor frame

An overview of the benefits of F#

Let’s try a new format – “shorts”; small blog posts where I elaborate on ideas that I’d discuss at my twitter, but they either come back over and over, or the short form doesn’t convey all th…

How the world's first real computer, the ENIAC, was restored by an unlikely group of conservationists—all thanks to Ross Perot.

You might have heard people say that functional programming is more academic, and real engineering is done in imperative style. I’m going to show you that real engineering is functional, and …

Introduction

You're probably familiar with zip bombs, XML bombs, etc. Put simply, they are (relatively) small files which produce enormous output when interpreted by naïve software. The challenge ...

On February 4, millions of browser tabs were
suddenly terminated. Not everyone was surprised; the dozen people who spent the last
four months waiting for this tragedy to occur watched in relief as the
first in a rapid stream of GitHub
comments began pouring…