This is directly inspired by Engineering for Slow
Internet. I figured I’d give running with
dogshit internet on my desktop and phone a go to see how poorly (or well!) specific applications behave.
This is not an in-depth review of the behavior, but just my…

This may be overkill, but it works on my machine

AI design tool for Figma. Turn screenshots into editable designs, generate UI with AI, and export production-ready React components.

Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston. However this often focuses on is long term trends, like the growth of the routing table or the adoption of…

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The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

In 2022, three companies with strange names and no clear business purpose beyond patent litigation filed dozens of lawsuits in Delaware federal court, accusing businesses of all sizes of patent

"The company was pretty close to going bankrupt, I was pretty close to going personally bankrupt⁠—we went all in, there was no money left"

Deprecating Outdated Issues on the GitHub Public Roadmap At GitHub, transparency and clarity are at the heart of our relationship with the community. As part of our ongoing efforts to keep you info...

Balaji Srinivasan's vision of Network States has influenced Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and the "New Right" movement. However, he fails to grasp that networks are more a worldview than a technology—a view that runs contrary to the simplistic logic of…

The tech giant said it is investigating the incident.

In early February 2022, notably just ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Volexity made a discovery that led to one of the most fascinating and complex incident investigations Volexity had ever worked. The investigation began when an alert from a custom…

A recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.

The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

Lonely individuals show atypical neural and linguistic responses to celebrities, diverging from group norms. Their unique perceptions reflect a lack of shared reality, reinforcing feelings of isolation and highlighting deviations in social cognition linked…

The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a UCL-led research team. The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging ...

A functional Scheme for world domination

The Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) has demonstrated strong performance in object segmentation tasks but faces challenges in visual object tracking, particularly when managing crowded scenes with...

The Epoch Cassette Vision was a moderate success. But in 1983, that all ended, when Nintendo and Sega released new consoles, which had more advanced hardware...

A data scientist’s perspective

When coupled to a piezoelectric fiber, traditional fabrics can serve as emitters or suppressors of sound, emitting sound up to 70 dB or actively reducing noise by up to 37 dB. A 130 µm fabric can als...