Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.

The “no kill” product cultivated from animal cells has only small regulatory hurdles left before it can be sold in restaurants

Every desktop computer or mobile device comes with some form of “appstore”. There is F-Droid for Android. Debian has “software repositories”at its core. T...

Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…

Electronics and microcontroller projects

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the early Model T Fords and their tricks. Only one page in the current catalogue of Sears, Roebuck is devoted to …

A curated directory of 1100+ Mac menu bar apps. Small apps to help you become more productive and maximize your workflow with MacOS.

MIT researchers can now control the physical and mechanical properties of lab-grown plant materials. This could enable an environmentally friendly process to produce wood-like structures with specific properties, like stiffness or density, tailored to certain…

As of C++20, we have four keywords beginning with const. What do they all mean? Are they mostly the same? Let’s compare them in this article.
const vs constexpr   const, our good old fried from the early days of C++ (and also C), can be applied to objects…

Matt Parker, employing the enviably pithy prose typical of a content creator forged on the unforgiving fires of social media, asked the simple question back in 2018: How thick is a three-sided coin…

Deep dive on how we built CloudQuery and the design decisions we made along the way.

@elonmusk Apple disallowed almost anything related to Covid, especially vaccines or human origins of the virus.

We had to build a list of over 20 terms to not show results for, only on Apple devices.

Apple also later rejected us because users included Pepe…

A Unix history's diagram

The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ and then backed out when confronted with the realities of building public infrastructure.