Canonical is funding research into automated C-to-Rust translation, with AppArmor and snap-confine serving as real-world case studies.

The Pine Time is a $27 smart watch that runs open source firmware. I’ve had one sitting in the back of a drawer for a...

$656M in unmatched and unclaimed mechanicals starts paying out by market share in January 2027. Paste a Spotify link and see which of your recordings are exposed. Free, no signup.

Global, open-source payouts for marketplaces with no fees. Run Zoneless alongside Stripe Connect or Paypal without changing your existing payments setup.

Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea

An explanation of generic methods in Go, covering method-level type parameters and why dynamic dispatch prevents them from being declared inside interfaces

The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.

The Opportunity

Sixtyfour turns a single name, email, or domain into a full, verified picture of a person or company — by sending AI agents out to research the open web the way a sharp analyst would, then checking and scoring what they find. You'll build…

In biology class, biology wasn't presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing.

A review of Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford

A new way to think about brainpower.

In yesterday’s post about the recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn’t say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the saturated Istio si…

OR: The Great Switcheroo

Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk because I need some chill

Born from knowing. Forged in understanding.

Hold on to your telescopes: the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all…

A blog about my unusual programming adventures

Uber infamously runs thousands of microservices. They ended up with so many services because hundreds of engineers wanted to deploy on their own schedule, with clear ownership of their code, instead of waiting in one giant merge queue.
For decades a small…