The dream of owning a home is increasingly out of reach. Democratic and authoritarian governments alike are struggling with the consequences.

I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie — it wasn’t creating the value. Nowadays, I often marvel at how much amazing value is present that people just don’t know about. If only there was a way to bring it to their attention…

The leap second concept was first introduced in 1972 by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in an attempt to periodically update Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) d…

A venture capitalist called Equal Ventures just says it straight-up, we seek to invest in monopolization.

The Creative
Commons CC0 license is essentially a public-domain declaration (or as
close as is possible in jurisdictions that lack a public domain). The
Fedora project has allowed the distribution of code under this license,
but, as announced
by Richard…

No one has been able to farm the rare, expensive fungus on a commercial scale – until now

Modern game controllers can point in a wide range of directions. Game designers sometimes want to convert the joystick direction to get 8-directional movement. A typical solution offered is to compute the angle, round it up and then compute back the direction…

I’ve learned a lot about building startups over the past few years, and have become much more opinionated on how to do it well. I spent the last 2 years at Clubhouse, where my learning was supercharged by the caliber of our team, the rate of growth, and the…

Further confirmation that drivers are of the utmost importance.

So many addressing modes, so little space.

Rotate tiles to connect all the pipes into a single network.

From Paris to Portland, cities are attempting to give residents everything they need within a few minutes of their front doors. Can it work—without leaving anyone out?

Acceleration Robotics and Harvard University will present an Open Architecture for hardware accelerating robots that helps prototype “robot chips” and make robot computations faster with ROS 2.

Some readers may recall that a few months ago I bought a cheap electric mini-truck on Alibaba. I know this...

Learn how to safely drop tables in MySQL by checking if the table is still in use and how PlanetScale makes this process much easier.