The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails,…

The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.

My presentation from the inaugural Better Software Conference, with notes.

“It’s not just the tailpipe y’all,” joked one Electrek commenter, alluding to the black discolorations on alloy wheels visible proof of a less infamous city pollutant: brake dust. For d…

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A Jitsi feature allows an attacker to transmit user's microphone and camera in the background without their consent.

We have “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from our browse and search pages. We understand this action is sudden and disruptive, and we are truly sorry for the frustration and confusion caused by...

We reverse engineered GitHub Actions cache internals to transparently route cache requests through our faster, colocated cache. This delivered up to 10x faster cache performance for some of our customers, with no code changes required and no need to maintain…

The U.S.'s push for domestic chip manufacturing is bearing fruit.

I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point ... Read more

Nature Reviews Bioengineering - On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.

Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to language...