Coercive Competition and the Future of Work

An open-source operating system based on Darwin and FreeBSD that aims to be compatible with macOS applications.

Workers and policymakers are pushing for safeguards around AI’s use in health care through collective bargaining and legislation.

Konrad Zuse aus Hoyerswerda baute den ersten funktionierenden Computer der Welt. Nun muss das Zuse-Computer-Museum in Hoyerswerda schließen. Wie konnte es so weit kommen?

I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.

On 29-30 August, I attended the State of the Map (SotM) conference, in particular the scientific part. It’s been 15 years since the last time that I attended the SotM conference (last time 20…

The qualities that make built places charming are best stewarded by people who live there. But America’s soul-crushing suburban districts are now owned by people far away — people who don’t even know they’re owners at all.

Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience.

If I now have to check the provenance of my produce, I should probably do the same for my hosting bill.

Today, tech folk are scrambling to change their workflows to meet newly inflated 5X productivity quotas, while getting pummeled under the co...

Snapchat's AI flagged a private message sent to 3 people and alerted the FBI in under an hour, leading to a student teacher's arrest.

Update on the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCKEDWowc0o

Try the prototype: https://ko-fi.com/s/e1e0f91951

I wanted to build a city that feels alive, but is made entirely from ASCII characters.

This is a small custom engine built with JavaScript…

What we are really arguing about

A measured comparison of Apple’s 1982, 1987, 1992, 2008, and current Human Interface Guidelines: what held, expanded, changed shape, arrived, and disappeared.

Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.

Read this Tcl/Tk hands-up/primer to find out how the open-source Command Tool Language toolkit can help you develop cross-plaform tools for Windows, Linux, macOS and even Android.

Darling — macOS translation layer for Linux

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point.

I still see the Scratch “visual programming” environment positioned as an introductory path to programming for kids, but unlike game modding, I have never heard a “success story”, where someone cr…

In 2004 I played too much RuneScape on a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen at once - in the browser, on 5 kilobytes per second. It worked. Let’s follow a single…