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.

Nature - In animals, the molecule automatically reduced blood-sugar levels without causing them to dip too much.

Almost 2 years since my talk at DjangoCon Europe about migrating from React to htmx. A lot has been said and asked, here is my follow-up.

The four astronauts were hospitalized after returning from an eight-month stay on board the ISS.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

The 1960s saw rapid growth in programming languages, which was both good and bad. The first (commercial) languages appeared in the late 1950s, in the guise of Fortran, and Cobol, which were very su…

How to draw text to a Vulkan renderpass without binding a single texture

A new post-training training quantization paradigm for diffusion models, which quantize both the weights and activations of FLUX.1 to 4 bits, achieving 3.5× memory and 8.7× latency reduction on a 16GB laptop 4090 GPU. Code: https://www.github.com/mit-han…