Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite…

A less romantic truth is that aesthetic standards rarely travel alone; power tends to follow in their wake. An episode at the U.S. State Department this month makes exactly this point.

Ruby ports of the beloved Charm terminal libraries. Build glamorous TUIs, style terminal output, create beautiful forms, and make your Ruby CLIs sparkle.

A strong, neutral, open source typeface for text or display.

subsea cables, internet infrastructure, telecom infrastructure, 2Africa, new subsea cable projects, layer 1 pricing on key international routes,

A no-bullshit guide to Swift concurrency. Learn async/await, actors, Sendable, and MainActor with simple mental models. No jargon, just clear explanations.

"We foresee a significant financing crisis."

A study by a Singapore government agency has found that children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed brain development changes linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety in adolescence, adding to concerns about early digital…

I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…

Postgres extension for vector search (DiskANN), complements pgvector for performance and scale. Postgres OSS licensed. - timescale/pgvectorscale

A calm digital space with minimalist, drone, industrial, and dark ambient music to support deep work, study, and reflection.

This repository contains the source code of toro unikernel - torokernel/torokernel

"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer." That's Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and one of the most respected AI researchers alive, writing in December 2025

Capacitor plague and bad accounting practices were a lethal one-two punch

ETH Zurich researchers have developed a process that can be used on site to render environmental toxins such as DDT and lindane harmless and convert them into valuable chemicals – a breakthrough for the remediation of contaminated sites and a sustainable…

Libsodium is now 13 years old!

Mitt Romney recently published a New York Times op-ed arguing for higher taxes on the rich. When he was in a position to actually sculpt the GOP platform and the tax policy of the US, Romney was an ardent supporter of cutting taxes for the wealthy.