Sitting exams is unpleasant at the best of times, but my daughter believes she has extra cause to complain. Two of her A-level papers are scheduled for the same time, so she must take a break betwe…

After a revolutionary mob torched Shahrinaw in 1979, the Iranian authorities erased all traces of the neighbourhood that had served as Tehran’s red-...

The year is 2008 and I had been using Mozilla Firefox for two years after my painful but inevitable breakup with Internet Explorer. But, out of school and professional necessity, I had to make the swi

Introduction There doesn’t seem to be a good tutorial out there for concatenative programming, so I figured I’d write one, inspired by t...

And it's not just the dominance of old songs—the whole creative culture is losing its ability to innovate. But why?

An introduction to applied Bayesian modeling.

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In this post series I will explain the making of a radio-controlled submarine. I will go through the design, the building process, Python code, tests in water, and all the mistakes I made. Lots of …

Getting the most out of the classic Linux/BSD debugger

Sales are sluggish compared with how much prices have risen—except when it comes to dining out.

As it continues to evolve, WebAssembly has the potential to be the platform executing an enormous amount of IoT computation.

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In today's guest post, Matthias Jambon unravels the curse of the Hasselblad XPan (in the form of a camera review).

A new academic study adds fuel to the 'copyright infringement' fire by suggesting that software piracy might lower poverty.

With subscriptions now the norm of the app world, I wanted to take a closer look & see how those little monthly microtransactions added up.

You may know that all numbers in JavaScript are 64 bit double-precision floating point values. This is sometimes convenient and it works pretty well as a default for novice programmers, who are often confused by integer math, and rightfully so when 1 / 2…