In Age of Empires the time to complete each simulation step varies greatly: the rendering time changes if the user is watching units, scrolling, or sitting over unexplored terrain, and large paths or strategic planning by the AI made the game turn fluctuate…

Being VP of Engineering is harder and lonelier than being CEO. In fact your VP is probably the loneliest person in your company - here's how to make it better.

Augmental's MouthPad, a hands-free trackpad operated by the tongue, revolutionizes digital interaction. As a wearable smart mouthwear device, it enhances accessibility and provides touchless control for your devices. Ideal for assistive technology applications…

Previously for Extreme Learning,
I discussed
all the ways I've broken production using healthchecks.
In this post
I'll do the same for PostgreSQL.

In which I show how ElasticSearch, Solr or another search specific database is probably unnecessary for a lot of PostgreSQL users.

There are types of contracts that you should be wary of signing, particularly in the software engineering and IT industry. There are potential pitfalls of non-compete clauses, confidentiality agreements, exclusive distribution agreements, and vague project…

Programming isn't about mindlessly typing away on a keyboard. There is an aesthetic quality that comes with approaching a problem.

Or building an optimal tech stack and doing so continuously.

U.S. officials on Tuesday warned financial firms and others that use of artificial intelligence (AI) can heighten the risk of bias and civil rights violations, and signaled they are policing marketplaces for such discrimination.

We implemented OAuth for the 50 most popular APIs. TL;DR: It is still a mess.

For the complete article, including links to the source material, see https://computerenhance.com/performance-excuses-debunked

After over 25 years I finally fixed all the things that have been bothering me about the ending to id software's awesome Quake 1

0:00 Introduction
1:47 Coding - Fixing the pose
3:01 Coding - Playing the right song
4:18 Coding - Show the right weapon
7:15…

If you're tasked with deleting a database, make sure you delete the right one.

Sources:
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-outage-of-january-31/
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/

Notes:…

After over 20 years, in an eerily similar tech market, the ideals of the Agile Manifesto still seem novel and strange. What happened?

After catching snippets of ChatGPT text that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking to the AI.

As much as Andy loves PostgreSQL, there is one part that is terrible and causes many headaches for people. Learn what it is and why it sucks.

Old war wound…

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I read a blog post by Alex Muscar, “Beautiful Binary Search in D”. It describes a binary search called “Shar’s algorithm”. I’d never heard of it and it’s i…