I heard about these mythical programs that find optimal code through a brute-force search, but I didn't know how they worked. So I made one.

After many years coding in different teams — big and small — I think I can now finally explain to myself why and when do we need, or not…

The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 marked a significant milestone in particle physics. Since then, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations have been diligently investigating the properties of this unique particle and searching…

Globalization is evolving, but it doesn't actually seem that, as one sometimes reads, that globalization is in reverse. For an overview of some key facts, Steven A. Altman and Caroline R. Bastian have produced the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2022, subtitled…

InternetNZ's Status Page - DNSSEC chain validation issue for .nz.

TLDR We have analyzed all Ordinal Inscriptions created since Bitcoin block 779832, which marks the introduction of the BRC-20 standard. It appears that 80% of all inscriptions created in early-mid May 2023 belong to a single person or entity that controls…

Imagine a circle with radius 1 cm rolling completely along the circumference of a circle with radius 4 cm. How many rotations did the smaller circle make? Be prepared for a surprise!

Sigils have a bit of a bad reputation. According to their detractors, sigils are “just a way of encoding type information” in variable names – basically a glorified version of apps Hungarian notati…

A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air. ...

At the heart of investing is understanding why something is mis-priced

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

I will no longer be speaking at RustConf 2023 about A (Possible) Future for Compile-Time Programming.What?The decision happened after I was reached out to by...

It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability

How Open Source provided the path to achieve our publishing goals