Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through technology by an order of magnitude. While we have some strong opinions and good ideas (we think) on how to build such a product (indeed, we've already started!), what was less obvious…

How to implement your own USB function with FunctionFS and how to integrate it with systemd.

I recently decided to learn more about Rust, and wrote a high performance RaptorQ (RFC6330) library. RaptorQ is a fountain code, and the core of the algorithm is a lot of matrix math over GF(256) – which translates into lots of XORs and reads from lookup…

A start-up in London thinks it can shake up the barbering industry by persuading people to get their hair cut in a van.

Shaping When laying out text using a font file, the code points in the string are mapped one-to-one to glyphs inside the file. A glyph...

Fierce 5G competition and poor sales see company retreat from once booming sector

For all their pontificating and complex moral theories, ethicists are just as disappointingly flawed as the rest of humanity. A study of 417 professors published last week in Philosophical Psychology found that, though the 151 ethics professors expressed…

Where peers connect and data channels easily.

The National Enquirer’s lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking.

A Leeds man is turning cold calls into profit by making marketing companies use his higher-rate line.

Security researchers have found a new kind of government malware that was hiding in plain sight within apps on Android’s Play Store. And they appear to have uncovered a case of lawful intercept gone wrong.

Farsight CEO Paul Vixie thinks more people should rely on their own servers to translate internet addresses, rather than relying on Google's.

“No one can buy a decent life with only two pennies a mile in profit.”

The nuance between timestamp with and without time zone