Good riddance.

In many ways, America’s social safety net falls short of those of our liberal democratic peers, yet we have no shortage of policies intended to provide social protections. Why is that, and how can we fix it?

Create plottable hand-coded art online using a JavaScript Turtle graphics API. Joy is in the craft.

On Friday, we talked about some of the bad things that can happen if you call a function with the wrong signature. The ia64 introduces yet another possible bad consequence of a mismatched function signature which you may have thought was harmless. The CreateThread…

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Parr rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, his colourful images capturing British life.

We’re entering a new period in the market. Call it what you want – a paradigm shift or simply shifting investor sentiment – but it’s clear that valuations now matter.  Unlike previous periods of time, such as the growth frenzy following the onset of the pandemic…

GitHub Actions has a package manager that ignores decades of supply chain security best practices: no lockfile, no integrity verification, no transitive pinning

How to get people to NOT contact you

The only Python SaaS starter with multi-tenant workspaces, Stripe billing, and enterprise auth (OAuth, MFA, Passkeys) — all self-hosted, fully yours.

A modular, non-POSIX operating system for x86_64, built from scratch in C and assembly. Intended to be educational and experimental while rigorously following a Plan9-style "everything is ...

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It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

We cannot fix probability with more probability. We need to re-introduce assert.

Simple, password-based encrypted vault for .env and infrastructure secrets. Like git-crypt or sops, but dramatically simpler. Ideal for small teams and IaC workflows - illarion/lockenv

Customers will see their bills increase from July 1, 2026 when Microsoft 365 pricing increases go into effect, adding up to $3/month for licenses.