Posted on Wednesday 18 May 2022. 774 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

Nobody should do it this way.

El sospechoso, que tiene un puesto de diarios en La Matanza, fue identificado después de analizar las direcciones de IP desde donde se hicieron las compras de servicios prepagos

<p>A scheme for a joke text compression algorithm</p>

Dear Professor Chomsky, we are a group of Ukrainian academic economists who were grieved by a series of your recent interviews and commentaries on the Russian war on Ukraine. We believe that your public opinion on this matter is counter-productive to bringing…

For the past few months I have been pretty burned when trying to do programming. Abandoning projects again and again.

In some cases, we're throwing out one metal in the process of extracting another.

Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on Markdown! Many had been anticipating this for years, including myself, so much in fact that I wrote a browser extension to get there early. (xhub, it can do a few…

Today, PyTorch officially introduced GPU support for Apple's ARM M1 chips. This is an exciting day for Mac users out there, so I spent a few minutes trying i...

A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general. - hng/tech-coops

Understanding why the two are connected could be key in finding treatments – or even a cure – for tinnitus

On Sunday, March 6, we migrated we converted more than 3.7 million lines of code with a single pull request. The next day, hundreds of engineers came in to start writing TypeScript for their projects.

I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine, visiting the cities of Uzhgorod, Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odessa. As with my other travels, I’ll write down thoughts and obse…

Thinking about programming as just math and engineering robs programmers of critical skills they need to build effective technology

In this article, we’ve collected some retro computer ads to give you a hands-on look into what made the tech headlines before the age of smartphones.

Are there any plans to migrate ubuntu to pipewire and wireplumber by default for audio, now that the LTS is out of the way? My anecdotal experience is that it seems to be working fine and in some cases (eg bluetooth audio, especially headsets) surparssing…

Public data suggests that several crypto investors profited from inside knowledge of when tokens would be listed on exchanges.

Real programming languages are living things, changing and evolving. As with any production code, most of their designer’s time is spent on bug fixing and small improvements, rather than on the rad…

The Windows Delta series is a series of modified Windows operating systems which restore beta features and visual aesthetics, along with fixing inconsistencies. Four versions have been released in...

NEW: In the crypto economy, the 1% is old news. .01% of bitcoin holders hold 27% of all bitcoin! That’s 100x the wealth concentration of the regular economy. Crypto, which was supposed to decentralize wealth and power, has just made it worse. We investigate…