[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February 2021, a winter storm that swept through Texas caused one of the most severe power crises in American history. The cold weather created shockingly high electricity demands…

Perhaps they are—which will not please their owners

@jdp23 @addyosmani We are mostly dealing with the waves of new users right now and keeping everything scaling but interop and activitypub are ASAP.

Should you read What We Owe the Future before you die or should you die first?

Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique in which planted cedars are pruned in a special way to produce "shoots" that eventually become perfect, straight, knot-free lumber.This is an ancient method, developed in the 14th century, which was originally…

Paranoid CIA heads blamed Soviet moles, but the real reason for the repeated disasters was much simpler

Announcing the GHC WebAssembly backend – present and future

The OECD says the UK will contract more next year than any other of the world's wealthiest nations.

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Daisugi is an ancient Japanese forestry technique in which planted cedars are pruned in a special way to produce "shoots" that eventually become perfect, straight, knot-free lumber.This is an ancient method, developed in the 14th century, which was originally…

WikiLeaks' website appears to be coming apart at the seams as more and more content becomes unavailable without explanation.

Multiple users report the same issue: After leaving Gitbook, they can’t get control of their subdomains back, even after adding their own CNAME or A records for the subdomain. Because they delete the Gitbook site, this generally results in 404. It seems…

It's really fast and only requires a few lines of shell scripting. You won't need to run systemd inside of WSL 2 either.

Nature - Devices that use wavelengths of sanitizing ultraviolet light that are safe for people could become a more common sight.

A few days ago, representatives from across the world voted to eventually abolish leap seconds from coordinated universal time, the world’s most popular time standard. In this article, I argue that the definition of Unix time should be changed, regardless…

Alexa, how does Amazon decide when the grand plan for conversational commerce has failed?