John Maynard Keynes was an aesthete in the most capacious sense.

A Google engineer named Hyrum Wright made an observation that came to
be known as Hyrum’s Law:

A very popular investment anecdote relates how Isaac Newton, after cashing in large
early gains, staked his fortune on the success of the South Sea Company of 1720 and
lost heavily in the ensuing crash. However, this tale is based on only a few items
of ...

Recently I gave a talk at RailsWorld (hopefully they’ll post the video soon), and part of my presentation was about eliminating allocations in tokenizers. I presented a simple function for measuring allocations:
def allocations x = GC.stat(:total_allocated_objects)…

ALWYN TURNER selects some passages from British literature that concern sausages.

Social media isn't toxic, most people just haven't figured out the game (yet)

qBittorrent BitTorrent client. Contribute to qbittorrent/qBittorrent development by creating an account on GitHub.

It’s not as maudlin as it might seem. If you take a few minutes to try it, you might find the same.

Some app makers worry that a subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions could make it hard for them to get the fast growth they need to compete.

The custom-made caps hold electrodes in place and reduce motion artifacts during EEGs.

Salt water dimmers, which are an example of liquid rheostats, were used in theatres after the introduction of electric lighting to control the brightness of the lights on stage.

FlyonUI is the easiest, free and open-source Tailwind CSS components library with semantic classes.

The first real money I ever made from game development was on Android. It was in 2013, when Android was still the underdog compared to the iPhone, and was being touted as a great platform for developers. I’d taken two weeks to build Patchy, a retro arcade…

TL;DR: Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, co-founder of WordPress, and single point of failure for WordPress.org is trying to bully me…

In the 1990s, NASA satellites built to spot high-energy particles coming from supernovae and other celestial-sized objects discovered a surprise—high energy gamma radiation bursts coming from right ...

Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard.

In the U.S., the arts are subsidized by the very wealthy and the very poor. But amid ongoing turmoil in the nonprofit world, some people are trying to build a new creative economy.