Today the Australian Signals Directorate announced their 75th Anniversary Commemorative Coin, which is a standard Australian 50 cent coin with various cryptographic puzzles embedded in it. I’m not a cryptography expert, but I’ve always loved this stuff from…

Uses less memory, now can generate 576x1280 images with 6 gb vram

The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.

* not the first, but it was the first to have features that we now expect to see in what we now call a "tiling window manager".

the first, most likely was at Xerox PARC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#Xerox_PARC

A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. - streetwriters/notesnook

One of the most interesting parts of my research was that I came to see the official indifference to the public's health as not a bug but a feature of this society. You see the elites routinely rejecting quarantine, and they spent very, very little money…

When it comes to serverless applications one principle rules them all: idempotency. This ability to rerun a function, make a REST API call, or process a message any number of times and ensure the same result is extremely hard to do reliably. In this talk…

💬 1  🔁 443  ❤️ 779 · The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard · Back in the early 80's, my dad worked at Storage Technology, a now-defunct corporate entity that made tape drives and pneumatic syste…

Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn't Asia have a printing revolution?

Constant Meiring - Technology Product Builder

Instagram has suspended Pornhub's widely followed account on the social platform.

“OK,” you’re probably thinking. “John, you talk a lot about things like Gopher and personal radios, and now you want to talk about building a reliable network out of……

The same happened recently with my account, @Apple says it is associated with another terminated account, but I believe it’s not true, they do not share more details. I still didn’t get an answer for my appeal so I hope there is a chance they decide to reinstate…

On efficiency, hiring, incentivisation and how we confuse communication latency with analysis speed

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

A restoration of John Regehrs famous quiz on integers in C