The tech works. The policy’s in place. So why are heat pumps still a hard sell? What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps?

The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.

Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task.…

The OSM dataset is huge, and keeps growing every day. Great news, of course, but sometimes the sheer volume can be overwhelming – there are just gobs and gobs of data! Hence, we created GOB (“Geo-Object Bundle”), a new file format that makes tackling OSM…

I was recently flying between HKG & LHR via British Airways. I’d done the same flight back in 2023, and remember relying on the in-flight entertainment for the 14 hour journey. However, this time on my way to London, they had an interesting offer: Free WiFi…

From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat

The device helped people with an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration, which affects about 1 million people in the U.S.

The dream of hypermedia can come to fruition in a world where clients can not only parse, but navigate with intent.

Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon

The digital habits that defined youth are transforming old age

iOS 26 changes how shutdown logs are handled, erasing key evidence of Pegasus and Predator spyware, creating new challenges for forensic investigators

Collaboration between Europol and the Shadowserver Foundation.

A comparison between a React and Backbone password strength app

When Ken Thompson won the Turing Award jointly with Dennis Ritchie for their
work in UNIX, he was expected like other Turing winners to write a paper that
would be published in the ACM Computer Journal. What he ended up submitting was
a paper about "the cutest…