An overview of how I use the open source accounting program GnuCash to manage my finances and generate cool graphs.

In late April, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called a meeting of the executives in charge of the ride-hailing firm’s nearly 4,000-person engineering department to tell them they needed to plan to cut headcount by 20%.Some of the engineering leaders responded…

I often write about odd monetary phenomena on this blog. Here's a new contender, Yemen's dual banknote system. Yemen uses the Yemeni ri...

Developers will be able to run Linux apps side by side with Windows ones

Over the past couple of years, Spotify has demonstrated a long-term commitment to the podcasting format by shelling out money hand over fist. The music streaming service has made a number of high-profile acquisitions, including production company Gimlet and…

At Signal, our goal is to build a reliable, secure, and private communication experience that is broadly accessible and simple to use. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours.

DirectX 12, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL and OpenCL acceleration are coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

With Chrome 83, we’ve started rolling out Secure DNS, a feature built on top of a secure DNS protocol called DNS-over-HTTPS, which is desi...

Micropayments systems are doomed. Here is why.

The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is coming to Spotify via a multi-year exclusive licensing deal. The talk series has long been the most-searched-for podcast on Spotify and is the leading show on practically every other…

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AWK is a text-processing language with a history spanning more than 40
years. It has a POSIX
standard, several conforming implementations, and is still surprisingly relevant in 2020 —
both for simple text processing tasks and for wrangling "big data". The…

Scrum is a buzzword, the virtue signal of choice for middle-management in software organizations.

The SSH agent acts behind the scenes to keep you safe. Here's how it works.

Do you have any examples of libraries in other languages or language features, which really should have implemented a well-known concept (Monoid,...

At about 6:00 AM on Monday, May 11, 2020, while on patrol in the area of the Franklin Park Zoo, District B-2 (Roxbury) officers were approached by a concerned citizen that an animal had escaped from the zoo. Additional officers arrived at the scene and were…