Random thoughts, articles and projects by a chronic overengineer.

Not sure if you should choose A or B? Do a unix fork on the universe to guarantee you made both choices. Maybe a more appropriate name is 'quantum coin flip'.

Functional, expression-oriented data processing language

BBC journalist and the documentarian behind HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, discusses art, individualism, power, myth, and the complications of self-expression.

Are you kidding? Edward Barbeau is now a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Toronto. Over the years he has been working to increase the interest in mathematics in general, and e…

Archaeologists have discovered beautiful ancient glassware in Nîmes, dating to when the French town was a Roman settlement known as Nemausus.

A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.

Judge rules copyright law governs public data scraping, not X’s terms.

A story of finding, understanding, and fixing a memory leak in our Rails app. With graphs and code!

I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is - francisrstokes/githublog

Simple Wireguard 2FA. Contribute to NHAS/wag development by creating an account on GitHub.

Story from the development of the Multics operating system. Unix, our famous child.

Free file archiver utility for Windows, macOS, Linux, Open Source file compression and encryption software. Open, extract RAR TAR ZIP archives, 200+ formats supported

Window management in Emacs gets a bad rap.
Some of this is deserved, but mostly this is a consequence of combining a very flexible and granular layout system with rather coarse controls. This leaves the door open to creating and using tools for handling windows…

Designing a notebook that can be shared as an app, run as a script, versioned with git, and more

The moral panic following Raffaella Spone’s ‘deepfake’ video spread around the world. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed …

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 turns on Device Encryption by default when you clean install or reset your system.