COBOL has a youth culture? Yes! COBOL programmers aren't a bunch of dinosaurs, and the language of COBOL is far from extinct.

From the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard was among those who pushed cinema's aesthetic and narrative limits while embodying the New Wave. The French-Swiss filmmaker died on September 13.

The idea of being able to write kernel code in the Rust language has a
certain appeal, but it is hard to judge how well that would actually work
in the absence of examples to look at. Those examples, especially for
modules beyond the "hello world" level…

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Gas storage reserves and capacities in Europe. Data updated daily for every country. Data contains current reserves and daily trends.

Open source CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design. Available from a CDN or NPM, as CSS or Javascript.

I’ve just spent over a day, going to sleep at 1:00 am, to upgrade dependencies and fix eviction warnings in the build of a Scala project.

Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 Microcontroller. Contribute to Wren6991/PicoDVI development by creating an account on GitHub.

HAProxy can be controlled from the command line using its admin socket. This can be used to easily disable and enable a backend server on the cli.

tl;dr: Rebuilding a target because its mtime is older than the
mtimes of its dependencies, like `make` does, is very error prone. redo does...

In the previous post, I talked about priority queues. But in my explanation of an alternative implementation, I neglected to mention a few things: The alternative implementation isn’t for pro…

Everyone says don't compare yourself to other people. It can be easier said than done. I'm going to run through how I avoid comparing myself

Hundreds of millions of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-LNP vaccine doses have already been administered to humans. However, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the immune effects of this platform. The mRNA-LNP-based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is highly inflammatory, and its…

I’ve read heartbreaking books about 9/11 but the piece of writing my brain recalls every year is the bizarre first-person account of the Toronto Star writer who happened to be in New York when the towers came down. Unfortunately for the Star, that person…

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This dataset aggregates daily data on European natural gas import flows and storage levels.

📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century. Contribute to hpjansson/chafa development by creating an account on GitHub.

This interview was originally published in Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, a new book published by Onomatopee. Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder…

PostgreSQL extension to monitor database network traffic - supabase/pg_netstat

What is it like to simulate weightlessness with a parabolic flight? How does an aircraft need to fly to achieve Zero G?