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Bubbles on the top of your coffee bed during the bloom phase of brewing aren’t just cute—they can tell you things about your brew.

This incredibly ambitious and thoroughly-executed project is by Charlie Humble-Thomas, done while pursuing his Masters in the Design Products program at the RCA. Called Conditional Longevity, it asks the question: "How long should objects last?" Seeking the…

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Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.

My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking…

This was several years back. Keep in mind that early in my career, my father had told me that doing a good job often meant doing what needed to be done in spite of your boss. And by that he meant that you can either make your boss successful and happy or…

"Those people aren't just being useless (and being coddled to think useless jobs actually matter—they don’t), but they are also taking money away from the rest of the workforce's retirement programs."

A Shell-operated plant registered millions of carbon credits for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that never happened, allowing the company to turn a profit on its fledgling carbon capture and storage project, according to a new report by Greenpeace…

Different database systems provide different ways to list or describe the things they hold. For instance, to find a particular table and column in MySQL, you run SHOW TABLES followed by SHOW COLUMNS FROM my_table. In SQLite, you do .tables and then .schema…

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Introduction to the Temporal Python SDK and how Temporal is a durable, distributed asyncio event loop

The so-called software supply chain starts with source code. But most security measures and too [...]