If you're into retro computing, you probably know about Oregon Trail; a simulation of the hardships faced by a group of colonists in 1848 as they travel by covered wagon from Independence Missouri to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. The game was wildly successful…

A beautiful and interactive visualization of the MTA's subway ridership data. Created for the 2024 MTA Open Data Challenge.

It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not…

Wearable real-time FLIP device

Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress…

We picked 50 paper/models/blogs across 10 fields in AI Eng: LLMs, Benchmarks, Prompting, RAG, Agents, CodeGen, Vision, Voice, Diffusion, Finetuning. If you're starting from scratch, start here.

Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform told to wait up to 30 days for earnings or be charged for quick payment

JPMorgan employees expressed dissatisfaction with work-life balance at the company in the months before executives decided to institute a five-day in-office workweek.

Speaker maker Sonos said on Monday Patrick Spence will step down as its CEO after a disastrous app update last year sparked customer criticism and delayed the development and release of other products.

I have been using FreeBSD on the desktops/laptops since about 20 years now and I have described all that I configured in the FreeBSD Desktop series. About 1 year ago I shared a video on YouTube and…

One of my 2025 resolutions is doing things that don’t scale and doing them faster without
overthinking. The idea is to focus on doing more while worrying less about scalability and
sustainability in the things I do outside of work. With that in mind, I’ve…

Fresh off court victory, NY says low-income plans must be available Wednesday.

Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to California

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Git Operations.

Pedro Sánchez announces measure in response to anger over rising housing costs

Corporate welfare has propped up high fructose corn syrup for decades. It’s unlikely to end anytime soon.

There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don't realize at all how big it is.