Create emergency notes that can be read by your trusted contacts only after your death.

By Seth Garfield The story of guaraná, the key ingredient of Brazil’s “national” soda and the centerpiece of a multi-billion dollar industry, may start here: “In the ancestral village there lived a virtuous couple who had a young son. A performer of wonders…

I just finished a vertical slice of the game and it looks like this: Work the door to admit martians matching some criteria. Everyone makes a huge mess of the FREE refreshments, which you have to clea...

From the Zed Blog: A deep-dive into the graphical underpinnings of GPUI, the hardware-accelerated framework that powers Zed's user interface.

This is a continuation of my post Dividing a square into similar rectangles, in which I discussed this puzzle: if you partition a square into n similar rectangles, what proportions can these rectan…

A collection of non-standard punctuation marks we should be using today.

Important Update (March 10): On deeper reflection, I probably don’t need to spend emotional energy refuting people like Chomsky, who believe that Large Language Models are just a laughable fa…

A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.

A little mental model for ownership and borrowing

Basic introduction to Kubernetes Operators and Controllers, with a tutorial on creating an Operator in Rust

We hallucinate so you don't have to.

Nature - Smoke from the catastrophic 2019–20 fires unleashed ozone-eating chlorine molecules into the stratosphere.

Dendronization – Evolving into a tree-like morphology. (In the style of “carcinization”.) From ‘dendro’, the ancient Greek root for tree.

This article goes through almost all of the changes of the last 3 years (and some from earlier) in JavaScript / ECMAScript and TypeScript.

The global fleet of SUVs last year had approximately the same emissions as the United Kingdom and Germany, combined.

A huge, step-by-step tutorial on how to create a beautiful stylized water shader in Unity using Shader Graph. This works with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Includes colors, foam, refraction, reflections, caustics and Gerstner waves.

So, further to recent changes at Gandi, I've just got some more info from support which I've included below. I've purchased domains from Gandi, pre-paying for multiple years of service such that some domains I have don't need renewing until 2027. When I purchased…

🎵🔉 A mini Spotify player with WebGL visualizations. - dvx/lofi