Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the key.

Ruth Selman shares an exciting update to her previous blog post about a 17th-century letter written in cipher.

How dynamic typing makes DSL-driven development easy, and what can be done to bring static typing up to par.

A query to find out if Postgres is read heavy or write heavy and tips for optimizing Postgres for both read and write workloads.

A luxurious package manager for Lua. Contribute to lumen-oss/lux development by creating an account on GitHub.

The needs are real – and you have so much power.

Yang Chen-Ning, a world-renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, passed away in Beijing on Saturday at 103.

a cheap and bloody experiment

I’m a great believer in low-tech math. I don’t like to rely on things a computer tells me; what if there’s a bug in the code? I prefer trusting things that I can check for myself. At the same…

We need only follow the money to figure out what has turned the once-liberal-leaning Marc Benioff into a full-throated Trump supporter. And now we see that Salesforce was hoping to land a new contract helping ICE to expand its reach.

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A video about all forms of equalizers. From one-click bass buttons to advanced studio correction.

Tracklist:
1: https://posy.bandcamp.com/track/lazy-tune
2: Not…

After echoing his calls to send troops into San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff now wants his company to help power President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

by Gary Borjesson

Even though I once liked xkcd, the last few years I think it's really gone down. This is an attempt to see wether
the rest of the world thinks the same. The results gathered here will tell everybody what xkcds are the better ones.
It would then be possible…

Let me say right away that this is my personal experience, in which I took some very radical decisions. If you are not ready for such decisions, just skip the relevant points. This post is specifically about smartphones; tablets (which do not have a SIM slot)…