Running Wayland on Linux in 2021

Building on the framework in “Designations, levels and calibrations”, I wanted to discuss a number of special topics related to designing and running performance systems. These topics are particularly interesting to me because they tend to be the emergent…

Skipjack are the world’s most abundant tuna. They’re resilient, but can they outswim our demand for this pantry staple?

About a month ago, a hot new social media app took Japan by storm. Its name was Crabhouse, and it let you enter a virtual room – dare we say “clubhouse” – full of crabs. By tapping individual crustaceans, users can learn facts about these fascinating animals…

The systemd System and Service Manager . Contribute to systemd/systemd development by creating an account on GitHub.

I have just posted this thread on inflation on Twitter. It will feature in 'Money for nothing and my Tweets for free' in due course:

Current debate about inflation isn’t really about whether it’s likely: it isn’t. Instead it’s about whose vision of the…

Linux Application Level Firewall based on eBPF and NFQUEUE. - harporoeder/ebpfsnitch

The classic tetris game written in Rust using ncurses - GitHub - adder46/tetris.rs: The classic tetris game written in Rust using ncurses

An examination of the software that powers modern Climate simulations.

A proposed standard that allows websites to define security policies.

Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, altruism, science, programming and music.

Researchers found traces of bodily fluids, as well as milk and other materials associated with pregnancy, on the ten-foot long parchment

At the end of the day, this is a straight-up ICO-style index fund to speculate on NFTs.

Opponents of Oliver Cromwell published his family recipes, with a side of fake news.

Is WhatsApp reading along as you write messages and saving your chats? In an interview, company CEO Will Cathcart explains what happens with user data and why he is concerned about proposed changes to German surveillance laws.

Last week’s post was intended to be a simple and direct announcement that our initial Indie.vc experiment was ending and would no longer…

Why we're joining the Git community and updating "master" to "main".