The long read: During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger

A recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE and language in C# with Avalonia - BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

Turns out even the people who made it kinda hate it, too.

The origin private file system (OPFS) is a storage endpoint provided as part of the File System API, which is private to the origin of the page and not visible to the user like the regular file system. It provides access to a special kind of file that is…

Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard…

CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.

Structured Text on the Internet before the World Wide Web

"The point of the open-source licenses we have is this permissionless sharing—that’s the blessing and the curse of open source. Everybody gets to use it, but it puts us precisely in this position of not being able to support that directly through the market.”

Yes, here at Old VCR we live in the past, when RISC Unix workstations still ruled the earth like large boxy tentaculous Cthulhus. Oh, sure, ...

I am using a very simple system for remembering commands and procedures, and for tracking what I work on. I have two plain text files called notes.txt and worktime.txt. In the notes file, I write d…

“Inactivity reboot" effectively puts iPhones in a more secure state by locking the user's encryption keys in the iPhone's secure enclave chip.

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

Tomorrow's editor, today. Windsurf Editor is the first AI agent-powered IDE that keeps developers in the flow. Available today on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Many decisions in life involve the tradeoff between risk and reward. Perhaps one has to choose between a "low risk, low reward" course of action, that plays it safe, but does not achieve any big wins; or a "high risk, high reward" choice which could potentially…

The OpenFlexure project aims to make high precision mechanical positioning available to anyone with a 3D printer - for use in microscopes, micromanipulators, and more.