Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He has died at age 83.

Using a Trump-era authority, the US Commerce Department has banned the sale of Kaspersky’s antivirus tools to new customers in the US, citing alleged threats to national security.

Recently I spent two weeks collaborating with Prefix.dev to further develop resolvo, their SAT-based dependency solver. The main goal was to fix a nasty bug, where the solver unexpectedly panicked upon hitting code that was supposed to be unreachable. “That…

FDA, Industry Actions End Sales of PFAS Used in U.S. Food Packaging

Introduction to bin packing through a simple example of fitting boxes of candy inside a parcel.

A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency.

A curated collection of awesome resources for frontend developers: tutorials, tools, libraries, design assets, and more! 🚀 - requestly/awesome-frontend-resources

MUDs, Usenet, and open source all play a part in 50 years of IF history.

I originally told the story over on the other site, but I thought I’d share it
here. With a bonus! I was working on a hardware accessory for the OG iPad. The
accessory connected to the iPad over USB and provided MIDI in/out and audio
in/out appropriate for…

Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined.

An article studying the use of LLMs fror designing circuit boards

Apple Inc. is withholding a raft of new technologies from hundreds of millions of consumers in the European Union, citing concerns posed by the bloc’s regulatory attempts to rein in Big Tech.

In 1994, multimedia discs—from encyclopedias to magazines—flooded the market, and felt like the future. It was fun while it lasted.