Don Siefkes of San Leandro follows up on his recent letter to the editor regarding transferring water from the Mississippi to the West.

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Transparent dictionary-based row-level compression for SQLite - phiresky/sqlite-zstd

Today we are extremely happy to finally announce Docusaurus 2.0! 🥳️

Until August 3, the world's largest online encyclopedia will stop anyone without an account from editing the U.S. Wikipedia page for a recession.

Addition, 08/02/2022, 3:03pm: I don’t know how this got shared to HackerNews. I appreciate all of the positive responses we have gotten. However, this was not an open letter. It was meant to be shared internally to Google. It went directly to the security…

Pagefind is an open-source tool that adds search to static websites without hosting any infrastructure, while respecting your users’ bandwidth.

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? OK, so there's a physical problem with our eyes: We move them in short fast bursts called "saccades", right? very quick, synchronized movements. The only problem is: they go all blurry and…

When teens decide they have a personality disorder or other mental-health affliction based on information they found in TikTok videos, it can fray family relationships and pose a treatment challenge.

Spin up complex forms in minutes. Use our open-source data platform to pipe your input exactly where you need it.

Introduction The other day I was reading this blog post covering existential types in Rust (also known as impl Trait or opaque types). In that blog post, the author makes the following claim.
We’re going to have to take a slight diversion into type theory…

For years, I enthusiastically produced content: books, articles, blog posts, and talks – averaging a book and a half plus five articles per year. Since about 2020, my productivity has plummeted – leaving me totally frustrated. There were no external causes…

In an all-hands meeting last week, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said employees need to be more productive and figure out where to cut distractions.

Has TypeScript gotten slow for you? Run this one magic command to visualize what TypeScript is compiling, and maybe get to the root of the issue.

The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.

As I get deeper into the Open Source world, I’ve noticed more and more misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Open Source. I touched on this in part in another recent post of mine.