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The time has come for Kuma — the platform that powers MDN Web Docs — to evolve. “What does a Kuma evolve into? A KumaMaMa?”

Been a lot of "victim blaming" going on these last few days. The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty.…

On switching off of IFTTT to self-hosted and on-device automation tools

The accurate representation of data is essential in science communication, however, colour maps that visually distort data through uneven colour gradients or are unreadable to those with colour vision deficiency remain prevalent. Here, the authors present…

Mendoza is a new, super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents.

Making music with low-level C code, from a simple saw wave to playing melodies

It might be a bug, or it might be a sign of an even more locked-down future. Why the iPhone 12’s faulty camera has us worried.

In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed…

With a little bit of extra work but no additional hardware, your cheap 3D printer can make complex objects out of different kinds of filament

TLA+ is a formal specification language that you can use to verify programs. It’s different from other formal verification systems in that it’s very pragmatic. Instead of writing proofs…

If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them:
public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
SimpleDateFormat...