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How can we future-proof Open Collective Inc. for the thousands of communities around the world that rely on it?

Lambda School has renamed itself “BloomTech” and pivoted into student loans. The twist is a refund offer, with interesting fine print. You must apply to *checks math* 460 jobs. Someone offers you a 3 month gig in Siberia? No refund.

It took a lot of careful planning to once again bend wood with giant steam boxes.

A senior cybersecurity official in the U.S. military has resigned, citing poor cybersecurity leadership, a lack of funding, and the rise of China.

Every time the Workers runtime code is built, a script runs over the public APIs and generates the Rust and TypeScript types as well as a JSON file containing an intermediate representation of the static types. The types are sent to the appropriate repositories…

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - koekeishiya/yabai

About IBM’s new 127-qubit superconducting chip: As I told New Scientist, I look forward to seeing the actual details! As far as I could see, the marketing materials that IBM released yesterda…

I ran across this quote while reading about what makes Tokyo work as a city: A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation. It’s a great quote and the piece attributes it to the fo

A simple single header 64 and 32 bit hash function using only add, sub, ror, and xor. - Keith-Cancel/k-hash

Hopepunk, Optimism, Purity, and Futures of Hard Work by Ada Palmer - "Fiction does not give us many stories of continuing to slog on after an unsatisfying partial victory. That makes hopepunk powerful."

Greg Barnhisel reviews two new books about the history of the CIA.

Here is the story. I am adding full-text search capability to Datalevin, a Datalog database that we open sourced last year. For this task, I have decided to write a search engine from scratch instead of using an existing search library. Here are some rationales…

Near the launch of SLOBS, @streamlabs reached out to us about using the OBS name. We kindly asked them not to. They did so anyway and followed up by filing a trademark We’ve tried to sort this out in private and they have been uncooperative at every turn…

In a cohort study, Yuan Zhang and colleagues investigate the associations between coffee and tea consumption and risk of stroke and dementia among participants older than 50 years of age in the UK Biobank.

redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux.

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