Learn how to use PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) for event-driven systems. Case study from Wayfair showing how to handle failures in Kafka consumers.

Learn to build safety-critical systems in C. Prove first, code second. - SpeyTech/c-from-scratch

Sixty years into the fire that left the town condemned, Centralia is now a haven for wild plants and butterflies.

Grateful acknowledgement made to the several former Apple employees who materially contributed to this entry. This article wouldn't have bee...

150,000 lines of production Elixir, written entirely by AI. Here's what worked and what didn't.

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The preliminary report into the crash that left 45 people dead finds evidence of a fracture more than two hours earlier.

I've been visiting the US a lot these days: for work, for conferences, and simply to see friends. Commensurately, I've been also thinking more about what Can...

A massive unsecured database exposed 149 million logins, raising concerns over infostealer malware and credential theft.

Lightweight, container-free sandbox for running commands with network and filesystem restrictions - Use-Tusk/fence

ollama launch is a new command which sets up and runs coding tools like Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex with local or cloud models. No environment variables or config files needed.

But George, surely you’ll still be allowed to own a car. They aren’t going to make that illegal. Of course they won’t, but they didn’t make general computation illegal either. And yet, who has root on the computer you are reading this on?

Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

Jack Edwards shapes the online world’s reading habits from BookTok. But can he handle his success?

Scientific Reports - LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight

Recently my wife and I needed to call a car, so out came the apps to compare rideshare prices. There’s always a bit of variation here, but this time was striking. My wife’s Uber app quoted her $28, while mine gave me $47. Same app, time, and place - but…

More than 36,500 Iranians were killed by security forces during the January 8-9 crackdown on nationwide protests, making it the deadliest two-day protest massacre in history, according to documents reviewed by Iran International's Editorial Board.