This is part one of the Crossover Project. Part two is here and part three is here. A conference talk based on this work is now available here.
I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking…

This simulation is essentially the same code as we used in the previous video. But this time, we show every time step and simulate 1 Million ants at once. This, of course, takes a lot of time. The simulation produced 31141 frames, which took a total of 94165s…

My rationale for these changes are documented on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JakeHerrington/status/1443286841533374469

The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to...

Pandemic didn’t cause it.

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Carol Chen's blog about stuff she does or reads about or observes

Supports almost all mainstream programming languages and complex code. Denigma helps you understand unfamiliar code and programming constructs.

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Burnout is common in software development. This article explores if COVID-19 had made it worse with the help of a developer survey.

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While investigating a performance issue in a library I am working on, I noticed that parsing a particular document (warning: very large file) causes the program to spend a lot of time in memchr (ro...

A Java Virtual Machine (JVM) consists of an abstract machine, or engine, that Java-based applications run on.

Edit 2021-10-27: Indie Stone released Project Zomboid build 41.56, and at first look I think they've fixed the bug correctly.  I'll write a ...

Today's episode is about remote work. Well, sort of. I found someone with a different perspective on remote work and a fantastic story to share, Paul Lutus. I think that he might be the original remote software developer. He left California behind for a lower…

Facebook and Instagram appeared to be partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform.

Browser monoculture bad

Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something…