From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

While the German economy is stagnating, Digital-Mittelstand may offer a solution.

Cloudflare has launched a legal action against LaLiga over IP blocking action that it says blocked millions of users from accessing unrelated websites.

Microsoft Corp. has canceled some leases for US data center capacity, according to TD Cowen, raising broader concerns over whether it’s securing more AI computing capacity than it needs in the long term.

Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab?

What is the complete path between visiting thepiratebay and sublimating an mp3 file from thin air? In this post, we'll implement enough of the BitTorrent protocol to download Debian. Look at the [Source code](https://github.com/veggiedefender/torrent-client/)…

Apple Inc., as it seeks relief from US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods imported from China, said that it will hire 20,000 new workers and produce AI servers in the US.

It is clear that ketamine at a sufficient dose & frequency can and does kill neurons through NMDA-driven excitotoxicity. However, what does a sufficient dose & frequency mean? There is a common myth that ketamine is “neurogenetic”. This is mostly false. While…

Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can’t interfere with it.

Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's nothing dodgy in them.     Left is upper-case HTTPS://EDENT.TEL/ and right is lower-case https://edent.tel/ You can clearly see that the one on the left is a "smaller" QR as it has…

Knowing what you're building

What is new in Emacs 30.1? I go through every change in the NEWS file and talk about the most interesting and useful changes.

Your number 1 tool for gathering insights from Steam.

Teammate App had a publicly exposed database and told me to stop harassing them after I emailed them about it.

xAI's new Grok 3 is currently deployed on Twitter (aka "X"), and apparently uses its ability to search for relevant tweets as part of every response. This is one of …

The Canadian government is moving ahead with a multibillion-dollar plan to build a high-speed rail network between Quebec City and Toronto.

A beginner-friendly introduction to stochastic calculus, focusing on intuition and calculus-based derivations instead of heavy probability theory formalism.