First Commodore 64 Christmas Demo, 1982
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Christmas screens for the Commodore 64, done completely with character graphics and sprites. Christmas trees in snow by Trip Denton of Philadelphia. All other screens by H. Rex Boucher, also of Philadelphia. Pop…

While working on this blog post I had a privilege of interacting with all neural search frameworks key developers / leadership: Malte Piestch (Haystack), Amin Ahmad (Vectara), Florian Hönicke (Jina…

With her husband near death from an antibiotic-resistant superbug, a scientist found a cure no one had used in the US — intravenous injections of viruses called phages — and convinced the medical system to save his life.

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by Bill Atkinson, as told to Leo Laporte In 1985 I swallowed a tiny fleck of gelatin containing a medium dose of LSD, and I spent most of the night sitting on a concrete park bench outside my home in Los Gatos, California.   I gazed up at a hundred billion…

When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well.

It's Christmastime and I've been happily working through this year's Advent of Code in Deno (look forward to a blog post in the new year). What with all the presents, it's a good time to think about what we'd most like to see from TypeScript in the new year.…

The company's data centers used 355 million gallons of the small city's water last year.

Resources to install NixOS bare metal on Apple Silicon Macs [maintainers=@tpwrules,@flokli,@yuyuyureka] - nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon

MIT President L. Rafael Reif calls for feedback from the MIT community on the proposed free expression statement created by a working group at the Institute.

Forty years after the internet was born, one of its pioneers calls for more critical thinking about how we use it.

Wi-Fi networking provides us with 2 bands for the operation of wireless LAN networks: the 2.4Ghz band and the 5GHz band. The 2.4GHz band has...

Monet’s Garden in Giverny The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.Claude Monet By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Artists’ gardens are a living...

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industry.

I have been using Nix for almost four years and also maintaining some packages at nixpkgs (the primary Nix repository). The Nix learning curve is complicated, so I could not get my colleagues into it. But Devenv made it so easy to compose a developer environment…

One of the sleeper news items of last week was that the Department of Energy officially vacated the Atomic Energy Commission decision that stripped J....

This time we are looking at a somewhat obscure machine: the Canon Cat. Designed by Jef Raskin, the Cat is sometimes called the spiritual successor to the Macintosh. That's a nice little epitaph, but doesn't fully explain the tangled mess of things between…

A rare gene combined with exposure to a mystery pathogen may have caused the deadly blood clotting issues that plagued AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine.