A very informal inquiry into why some people on the Bluesky network didn't have a great time when they tried using Mastodon in the period leading up to the summer of 2023.

Or how I learned to make weird cats

These two links have brought to mind an issue I’ve been thinking a lot about.
​"The boom times are over.“​. ​"Eleventy and CloudCannon: New Best Friends—zachleat.com"​. The first, Amy Hoy’s post, points out that the tech bubble—the one that has been kept…

An international research collaboration (EGRIP) headed by ice core scientists from the University of Copenhagen has attained their goal of drilling to the bottom of the ice sheet. It marks the first time that this has been achieved in an ice stream, where…

The last couple of years have been quite revolutionary in the Silicon industry as a whole. With the resurgence of horizo

The online marketplace has come under fire for putting 75% of sellers' takings on hold for 45 days.

When you think about the Fibonacci sequence, you probably imagine a swirling vortex of oscillating points stretching outwards to infinity:



Okay, no, obviously you don’t. Yet.

Issue 013

Amazon will soon require international app developers who offer ad-supported streaming video services available to Fire TV users to opt into their in-house ad publishing service or, where unavailab | Amazon will soon require international app developers who…

Paul Reubens, the actor best known for portraying Pee-wee Herman, died Sunday night after a private bout of cancer. He was 70.

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The art of doing science

The name is all but dead, nerfed by the company who invented it. Here’s why Netlify was ahead of its time and where everything went wrong.

Many people view LaTeX as a typesetting language and overlook the importance of programming in document generation process. As a matter of fact, many large and structural documents can benefit from a programming backend, which enhances layout standardization…

An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-h...

‘Elon Musk loves free speech, but only when it’s convenient for him and his far-right political agenda,’ says founder of Progress Action Fund

Cards as Weapons Ricky Jay (1977)

’Blade Runner 2049’ is on the way. Here’s the story of why the franchise has its title. It involves William S. Burroughs and a doctor named Alan E. Nourse.

The REPLANT Act provides money for the US Forest Service to plant more than a billion trees in the next nine years. The World Economic Forum aims to help plant a trillion trees around the world by 2030. Many US cities have plans to shade their streets with…