Intriguing title, no? These are the first eleven words of Neal Stephenson’s novel Seveneves, which set up the remaining 600 pages as an extended treatise on the future of humanity as it copes…

The rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the world’s most important ecosystems. But international timber firms are logging trees there illegally. Locals are starting to fight back, with some success.

Emma Eckstein was a bleeder: She liked to bleed. She wanted to empty herself out into the world. She . . . .

A basic REST service for JSON data - enough for prototyping and MVPs! - rehacktive/caffeine

The Department for Education has contributed a new checkbox to the GOV.UK Design System that lets users explicitly tell us none of the other options apply.

From the docks of 12th-century Genoa to the gambling tables of today, risk is a story that we tell ourselves about the future

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So a couple of weeks ago I wrote Finding Alloy's Niche, where I said I wasn't expecting the new Alloy 6 release to change all that much. It came out last...

Welcome to the October 2021 Multicore OCaml monthly report! The previous updates along with this update have been compiled by me, @ctk21, @kayceesrk and @shakthimaan. As @octachron announced last month, the core team has committed to an OCaml 5.0 release…

 I posted on  When did Math get so hard?  a commenter pointed out that one can also ask  When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard? For t...

British politicians do what African politicians do. Yet they insist on calling it something else.

Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.

Federated sign-in component for your web app (using Matrix) - mishushakov/signin-with-matrix

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