Serendipity without physical proximity? Maybe, maybe not.

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Why do we call electrons 'negative' and protons 'positive'? It's an arbitrary convention but it's annoying: it means that when electrons flow through wires, the current is defined to flow in the OTHER DIRECTION.

If you ask people…

Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.

The Ontario Science Centre is shutting down immediately as an engineering report commissioned by the province shows the roof could collapse — but while it could be fixed at a cost, the province is choosing to shutter the location indefinitely.

Governor Hochul signed nation-leading legislation to combat addictive social media feeds and protect kids online. 

SVG, short for <em>“scalable
vector graphics”</em> is a format for, well, scalable vector graphics.
In this article I summarize my opinion of the format, what its problems
are and suggest what could be done to improve things.

What am I even paying for?

People tend to get pretty passionate about Git workflows on different online forums. Some
like to rebase, while others prefer to keep the disorganized records. Some dislike the extra
merge commit, while others love to preserve all the historical artifacts.…

Achieve 20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser

Two weeks ago my buddy @fulligin pulled me aside and said "I have something to show you." That something was the Daylight Computer, which I was previously unaware of.

I've since bought one and am using it fairly extensively for reading. Vincent recorded…

Super fast web build tool written in Rust

GitHub copy of the NTS/TeX source code from 2001. Contribute to jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system development by creating an account on GitHub.

A typical USB-C portable battery can power it for at least an hour.

“We are letting the data drive our decision."