On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for an attack on an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

As the attack developed, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He…

Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC

As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.

Apple has announced that in macOS 10.15 Catalina the default shell will be zsh. In this series, I will document my experiences moving bash settings, configurations, and scripts over to zsh. Part 1:…

npj Science of Food - Ultrafast cold-brewing of coffee by picosecond-pulsed laser extraction

It happened. Nearly 5 years of paper writing, being snuck Committee Meeting notes on the DL until I could access them myself and absolve my co-conspirators o...

Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update.

Hi, from Japan. We’ve been suffering from the spam pages on Google search results for almost half a year. A large number of spam pages are indexed when searching by our product name. It’s very similar to Japanese Keyword hack, but the difference is that…

Kerf (Kerf1) is a columnar tick database and time-series language for Linux/OSX/BSD/iOS/Android. It is written in C and natively speaks JSON and SQL. Kerf can be used for trading platforms, feedhan...

This week we made great progress on a lot of UI issues and bugs, and I bet you’ll find at least one issue that was annoying you fixed among these! 15-Minute Bugs Resolved Current number of bu…

Take roof trusses.

Somehow, posting a video clip of the cat game Stray on Twitter got me banned from Twitter, and I'm baffled as to how.

Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you.

The WHO declared the unprecedented monkeypox outbreak that has spread around the world a public health emergency, a decision that will empower the agency to take additional measures to try to curb the virus’s spread.