Coding can be tedious, dreary, and stressful. Zooming out to reflect on how extraordinary software programming is can bring back the wonder. Credit: Thinkstock We humans are a funny lot. How quickly w
In 1988, the anthropologist Joseph Tainter published a book called The Collapse of Complex Societies . In it, he described the rise and fall of great civilizations such as the Romans, the Mayans, and
Firmware add-on for the Canon EOS cameras by Trammell Hudson Magic Lantern is a firmware add-on for various Canon digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and the EOS M . It adds features for DSLR fi
June 12 , 2022 Priest Against Priesthood father of FORTRAN on programming in the fifties John Backus , director of the FORTRAN team, co-inventor of Backus-Naur Form, and numerous computing award winne
A look at Linux kernel developers' variousrevision control solutions through the years, Linus Torvalds' decision to useBitKeeper and the controversy that followed, and how Git came to be created. Orig
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using Google as spellcheck. I am embarrassingly atrocious at spelling. In Vim, which I use for email via Mutt, I can use :set spell . In Emacs I can u
Hello, Every readers! We're excited to share this post from Sam Gerstenzang . Most recently, he worked in Product at Stripe, where he led the 75-person payment UI group. Sam's experience runs the gamu
Italy to Allow Living Wills and the Refusal of End-of-Life Care Supporters of a living will bill were overcome with emotion after the law was approved on Thursday by Italian lawmakers. Credit... Giuse
Man Paralyzed 12 Years Ago Becomes Italy’s First Assisted Suicide The man, Federico Carboni, overcame a series of legal and bureaucratic challenges before ending his life. On Thursday, Federico Carbon
Project management is a topic most people have strong opinions on, and I’m no exception. To answer the question of how different companies run engineering projects, I pulled in help from across the in
I sometimes look at the long ribbons of texts I’ve gotten from Steve Bannon and wonder whether they couldn’t tell the whole story all on their own. There are certainly enough of them. He says he has f
WordPress has focused it’s attention recently on the Five for the Future campaign, the banner name for all open source contributions made by the community at large. A few recent posts by project leade
Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering Rob Pike Google, Inc. @rob_pike http://golang.org/s/plusrob http://golang.org 1. Abstract (This is a modified version of the keynot
Python introduced asynchronous programming capabilities in version 3.4 in 2014,with further notable improvements in almost every minor version since.However, to many Python programmers, this area of t
struct — Binary Data Structures Purpose: Convert between strings and binary data. The struct module includes functions for converting betweenstrings of bytes and native Python data types such as numbe
What is Zig? Zig is a relatively new (2016) low-level programming language that could compete with C for embedded applications and library writing.Zig has excellent interoperability with C, but can al
Brian Kernighan on the typesetting of "The Go Programming Language" book Posted on 2016-03-07 golang, typesetting, unix A while ago, I bought the book “ The Go Programming Language ” written by Alan D
Programming Language C - C2x Charter Document: WG 14 N 2086 Author: David Keaton, Convener Date: 2016-09-19 Introduction At the WG 14 meeting in Kona, Hawaii, in October, 2015, there wasgeneral agreem
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