Solar is in the process of shearing off the base of the entire global industrial stack – energy – and the tech sector still lacks a unified thesis for how to best enable, accelerate, an…

UNIX (well, POSIX) signals are probably one of the worst parts of the UNIX API, and that’s a relatively high bar. A signal can be sent to your program at any point when it’s running, and you have to deal with it somehow. Traditionally, there are three ways…

Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/google-ai-overview-search.html

In my off time (and my on time, for that matter) I've been working on this quirky thing I've called Scinamalink (sounds like 'skinamarink'). Scinamalink lets customers send Magic login links to their users with a single REST API call. If you don't know what…

I apologize if this information is already known, but I couldn’t find any references about it and I wanted to understand what was going on and share with you because I think there is some value doing it.
In case this wasn’t known, I apologize to the Go team…

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

In 1960, the famed computer scientist Don Knuth wrote a technical paper in which he considered an integer programming model for minimizing memory access latency of an IBM 650. I’ve included a…

Many young people across Asia are cutting themselves off from society, locking themselves at home for months or years. Here’s why.

Why don’t we all have bathrooms that can dry laundry, too?

The capital will be used to expand the startup’s research team and to build foundational models — similar to those developed by OpenAI.

Google’s AI Overview launch showcases that the race for AI domination is perilous.

Next time you look at a transmission line, I hope you'll
focus on the big four properties: characteristic impedance, high-frequency loss, delay, and
cros...

OpenAI on Thursday sent an internal memo releasing former employees from non-disparagement agreements that did not expire, which had incited controversy.

When an artist wants to tour the US, they need to apply for a special visa. That application has to be made weeks and months in advance. If you show up at

tmux (short for “terminal mux” (short for “multiplexer”)) is i3 for your terminal. Oh, it’s so much more than that, and I recently discovered with some joy that it is installed by default on OpenBSD, but its fundamental value add to any programmer who has…

Scientists have discovered that a "single atomic defect" in a layered 2D material can hold onto quantum information for microseconds at room temperature, underscoring the potential of 2D materials in ...

The major C++ compilers are starting to ship modules implementations so I figured I'd add more support for those in Meson. That resulted in ...