"Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point."

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

In 1995, an otherwise unknown software developer released the first version of a new scripting language whose explicit aim was to make applications for this new platform called "The World Wide Web". After starting as a small project, and thanks to the crazy…

A new model may have finally solved where storm clouds get their missing energy.

: Devs told to exercise 'extreme caution' with emails disguised as account update prompts

Could shining light through the human head be the key to affordable deep brain imaging? Glasgow researchers think so.

An in-depth exploration of what happens when Rust and C memory allocators collide, featuring crash analysis.

Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it...

AI tools were supposed to free up our time—but they’re increasing our cognitive load and making us less productive. Here’s what’s really happening (and how to use them without burning out).

A blameful postmortem of how my viral HackerNews project got compromised by legacy passwords, missing auth, and the perils of vibe coding.

The world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it

Microsoft is now a $4 trillion company, but that's cold comfort for all those ex (and soon to be ex) employees who helped make that achievement possible.

AI, history, and Soviet sci-fi

There’s a saying that goes “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” But what happens when you trade your hammer for a…

Finding that, at 28, she didn’t seem to have the close tribe of confidants that other people in her life did, one writer decided to investigate why—by reaching out to four of her ex-best friends.