As the climate changes, genetic engineering will be essential for growing food. But is it creating a race of superweeds?

On October 20, the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler, Stiver, passed away after a long fight against glioblastoma. Stiver was a German programmer of Russian origin, primarily devel

The Pirate Bay made its debut as a TV series on Swedish public television today. But finding a pirated copy is proving surprisingly difficult.

Rows of vintage Ford Mavericks in a cave? A snapshot explains the complex subterranean car storage system deep beneath Missouri bedrock.

Didn't even make it out of the gate.

Traditions, trends, and who's wearing what in today's NBA

The CRISPR molecular scissors have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases. This is because they can be used to correct specific defective sections of the genome. Unfortunately, ...

Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)

Have you ever wished for a 500 Hz, millimeter-precise linear position sensing system? Well you're in luck --- all you need is some circuit board, a basic microcontroller, and a wee bit of maths!

Compressed bitmap indexes are used in databases and search engines. Many bitmap compression techniques have been proposed, almost all relying primarily on run-length encoding (RLE). However, on...

For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.

"I've worked with a couple of Staff Engineers on different teams in the past and I've seen them do different things, but I've not been able to pin down exactly what they do."



I get this question quite frequently. Sometimes from engineers looking to elevate…

Apple's effort to improve the UX of math.

Critics worry Anthropic is endangering its "ethical" AI stance due to defense associations.

A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, and blame output - dandavison/delta

Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-on-uh), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come to fruition. Sometimes whil…

Geometry puzzles that benefit from shifting the dimension.
Bonus video with extra puzzles: https://www.patreon.com/posts/115570453

The artwork at the end is by Kurt Bruns

Thanks to Daniel Kim for sharing the first two puzzles with me. He mentioned the earliest…

Sequential Logic. Contribute to cjdrake/seqlogic development by creating an account on GitHub.