For about thirty years, photographic education leans on the rule of thirds, and other geometry like the Golden Mean. But where did these really come from? And how were they meant to be used?

XAES-256-GCM is a new AEAD extended-nonce algorithm designed for high-level APIs and FIPS 140 compliance.

How the Most Important Celebrity Magazine of the Last 50 Years Started Endorsing "The Best Air Purifiers of 2024"

An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer’s Locomotion

Pay phones were thought to have an unpickable lock. Then James Clark came along.

THE WORLD’S first industrial plant using solar heat to make fuels has been opened in Germany. Using a vast array of mirrors that focus the sun’s heat onto a tower, the technology’s developer Synhelion plans to use its process to produce greener fuel for planes…

The why and how a not-so good-looking “tractor” chronograph movement, born half a century ago, continues to influence the watchmaking world.

I used to be extremely confident in myself.
I was barely 20 years old and I would tell people how to sleep, how to make friends, and how to live their lives. I started a nonprofit aiming to literally rebuild the institutions of science from the ground up.…

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One of the most popular uses of Stable Diffusion is to generate realistic people. They can look as real as taken from a camera. In this post, you will learn

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I wrote a blog post the other day about how Next.js Middleware can be useful for working around some of the restrictions imposed by server components. This led to some fun discussions in the world about whether this was a reasonable approach or if Next.js…

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🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM. - WerWolv/ImHex

I finally have the feeling that I’m a decent programmer, so I thought it would be fun to write some advice with the idea of “what would have gotten me to this point faster?” I’m not claiming this is great advice for everyone, just that it would have been…

Judges rule evidence was "not sufficient" in the trial that took testimony from 27 witnesses.

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