A teacher obsessed with identifying talent, maximizing potential and optimizing education has created a dynasty. A former Wall Street bond trader, Buchholz High School coach Will Frazer says: ‘I used to get paid money. Now we get trophies.’

Yearly software development plans are my favourite genre of fiction. In the fabulous world of yearly plans, product developers assume they know exactly what product they must build and how long each task will take.

Forests and bushes now cover over 2% of Iceland, Vísir reports. That number may not seem like much, but since 1990, the surface area covered by forest or shrubs in Iceland has increased more than six times over – from 7,000 hectares to 45,000. In 20 years…

Those from households with an annual income of $1 million are 10 times more likely to become artists than those from families with a $100,000 income

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV - GitHub - ajensenwaud/dbs-tools: Perl tools to transform account / transaction data from DBS Bank into proper CSV

I'm saddened by the need to author this blog post about a product that I once loved. For the last eight months I've been traveling around Australia in a custom built van with a Denon 4 controller connected to two SOUNDBOKs v3 speakers

and life has been pretty…

The data scientist's open-source choice to scale, assess and maintain natural language data. Treat training data like a software artifact. - code-kern-ai/refinery

Spam domains that plague my email. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Hot, dry rock deep underground could be used to heat water and produce electricity

The cordless electric drill, often referred to as a “drill/driver” is the most commonly owned power tool to find in a homeowner’s tool kit. Even people who aren’t do-it-yourselfers are likely to have and use one of these tools. What do you do if you have…

Thanks to @yarbabin for the logo Electronic payment systems have existed on the Internet for a long time, and some bugs in them are twenty years old. We’ve found critical vulnerabilities allowing us…

Porting Linux to Apple Silicon

According to [Asianometry], in 1986 the Soviet Union had about 10,000 computers. At the same time, the United States had 1.3 million! The USSR was hardly a backward country — they’d lau…

There have been a few initiatives in recent years to implement a new userspace base system for Linux distributions as an alternative to the GNU coreutils and BusyBox. Recently, one of the authors of one of these proposed implementations made the pitch in…