This post was written as a reflection at the first Dev Writers Retreat. It's been really weird doing this in the PermaParty city while the world seemingly falls apart outside. Here's my attempt to make sense of it.

As demand soars for EVs and clean energy storage, Australia is rising to meet much of the world's demand for lithium. How can we source this lithium sustainably?

Riding Earth’s mighty forces in Nazaré, Portugal.

Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.

OpenMPT is a popular tracker supporting many module formats.

As the global population inches toward 10 billion and climate change threatens existing food security, versatile, nutritious algae is entering the stage.

Back in 2018, now five years ago, we published a blog post describing our 400+ node Elasticsearch cluster. In that post we brought up an important topic: So far, we have elected to not upgrade the cluster. We would like to, but so far there have been more…

The U.S. is one of the most expensive countries in the world for building transit, according to the Transit Costs Project. A research group at the NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management is working to understand why.

The Fateful Journey
by Sean Ley, Development Officer

The final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald began November 9, 1975 at the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1, Superior, Wisconsin. Captain Ernest M. McSorley had loaded her with 26,116 long tons of…

Harry Marr — Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Co-founded Dependabot, previously at GitHub, Monzo, and GoCardless.

A Mastodon Server for Internet Archive employees and Role Accounts (Announcements)

Industry is already using data to remake culture. To reverse the tide—to make culture more equitable—we need to decode that data for ourselves.

After my last post, which hypothesized a relationship between the total size of a program and the bugs in it, I was led to this paper, via this blog post, via this comment. This, by the way, is my...

A general purpose computer program and special purpose apparatus for matching strings of alphanumeric characters are disclosed. The algorithm involved makes use of a current-character search list (augmented for all alternative characters) and a nextcharacter…