Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a…

I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?

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At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” thatmakes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratoryprogramming in a Jupyter no...

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases…

Bruno, first of all, thanks for agreeing to this interview. In 2004, iText was 4 years old, and in widespread use. Can you tell us what factored into the decision to commercialize your library?

iText started as a project that I maintained after hours ...

SB Loses Shootout to Manhattan On Nov. 24 Stony Brook’s Women’s Basketball team faced the Manhattan Jasper’s. In a high scoring affair, Stony Brook lost by a final score of 74-68. The Jasper’s held the lead most of the game, including a game high 12 point…

Using mmap() to load LLaMA faster in parallel with less memory.

When I joined my first Scrum team as an engineer, I thought it was a very good idea. For some parts of it, I still think that. The idea…

This particular lesson is one that is central to my view of good software development.

I built a self-driving RC Car that can follow racing lines and then tried to race it as fast as possible without crashing it. This time, it is WAY faster than anything you've seen in the previous video.

If you haven't seen the 1st video featuring this self…

Should you consider GraphQL?

Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API. Contribute to openai/openai-cookbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

Join us in our urgent mission to democratize AI research by establishing an international, publicly funded supercomputing facility equipped with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI accelerators to train open source foundation models. This monumental initiative will…

The most important language enhancements that have been added to Java in the last 20 years

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How mismanagement at the organisation level caused the best team I've been in to disband.

Grid diagrams let you display objects in a structured grid.

Explore the role of tracing in Kubernetes and how it can help you monitor the health and performance of your cloud-native applications.

"Rust" and "Cargo" are registered trademarks held by the Rust Foundation — the independent non-profit supporting Rust's maintainers. In August 1,000 people responded to the foundation's Trademark Policy Review Survey, after which the foundation invited…