I recently acquired a Sinclair Scientific calculator from 1974, alongside a large bundle of vintage computers – this was an unexpected (but very welcome) surprise and is in fact my first vint…

For centuries, sleeping outside has been embraced or condemned, depending on who’s doing it.

Whenever I advise (or join!) a startup, one of the first conversations goes something like this: “Oh man. Everything here is broken! It sucks! There’s so much to do and not enough people to do it. We’re missing so many things, we don’t know where to start!…

This blog post was also posted as a wall of text on GNOME’s Discourse to share the results of the survey with the broader GNOME Community.
The topic of our Instant Messaging platform of choice is quite old. In May 2021 I covered the history of IRC and Matrix…

Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd

A guide for your daily "professional" interactions

Version 12.1 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is expected to be released in April 2022. Like every major GCC release, this version will bring many additions, improvements, bug fixes, and new

Lawsuits allege USPS purchase of inefficient vehicles violates environmental law.

Life is to short to work on things you hate

The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers eventually walked out the door. What does that mean for the company’s next big thing?

Posts and writings by Tom Augspurger

Was the addition of mitochondria a first step in the formation of complex cells or one of the last? A new study of bacteria tries to answer this contentious question in evolutionary biology.

90% of the software engineering being done today is integrating poorly documented API A with poorly documented API B.

OpenFeature is an open specification that provides a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging that works with your favorite feature flag management tool or in-house solution.

pyscript.net Supporting open source and creating tools that enable people to do more with less are why I joined Anaconda almost eight years ago. Today,…

NoiseCraft is an open source, visual programming language and platform for
sound synthesis and music making, with the goal of creating a community for
the open exchange of musical ideas. The design is loosely inspired by
PureData,…

The Biden Administration is planning a campaign to attract Russian scientists and engineers to the US, in an effort to further weaken Russia’s science and technology base. It also plans to help Russian physicists at the CERN nuclear lab continue working there…