Your logs are lying to you. Not maliciously. They're just not equipped to tell the truth. You've probably spent hours grep-ing through logs trying to understand why a user couldn't check out, why that webhook failed, or why your p99 latency spiked at 3am. You found nothing useful. Just timestamps…

“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Your life is going pretty darn well by any objective metric. Nice place to live. More than enough stuff. Family and friends who love you. But you’re…

What’s new in Python 3.15 Editor: Hugo van Kemenade This article explains the new features in Python 3.15, compared to 3.14. For full details, see the changelog. Note Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.15 moves…

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off. The news was posted to Mastodon by…

photo cred: my dad People are less weird than they used to be. That might sound odd, but data from every sector of society is pointing strongly in the same direction: we’re in a recession of mischief, a crisis of conventionality, and an epidemic of the mundane. Deviance is on the decline. I’m not…

I plan to write a series of posts outlining some unconventional or dissident conceptual frameworks I’ve found useful in understanding contemporary society. These aren’t the usual tired ideas or dead metaphors already familiar to us. I won’t even mention those stale truisms, because you already know…

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Andrej Karpathy 9 min read· Nov 11, 2017 -- I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometimes you can use them to win Kaggle competitions. Unfortunately, this interpretation…

Steve Jobs is founder of Apple. This essay is an excerpt from a speech he gave at the Palo Alto High School graduation in June 1996. Be aware of the world’s magical, mystical, and artistic sides. The most important things in life are not the goal-oriented, materialistic things that everyone and…

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Hay festival president Stephen Fry is backing the organisation’s new campaign to collect recommendations for the most pleasurable books to entice new readers, in a bid to combat falling literacy rates in the UK. The Pleasure List campaign, run in partnership with the government’s National Year of…

Modern culture is focused exclusively on questions that can be answered quickly. In academia, that’s what you can get funding for. Fast questions can be answered within a few weeks. You can then publish a paper. You can start collecting citations. You can present your answer at conferences. This is…

Horrific child abuse. (Archive Photos / Stringer) In 1913, journalist Helen Todd talked to hundreds of 14- to 16-year-olds working in American factories. Most of their fathers were dead or had crippling health issues thanks to decades of work in unsafe factories, and their mothers were supporting an…

So somebody tweeted about the Seagate Mach.2 , a harddisk with two independent heads “combs”, and I commented in german : “It’s two drives in one chassis, even shown as two drives. And it still is rotating rust, so slow with seeks. Linear IO will be fine.” That quickly devolved in a discussion of…

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Tech giants are pushing for the return-to-the-office (RTO) as companies want employees back at their desks. Tech giants are summoning their employees back to the…

You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. Estimated reading time: 8 minutes The automation paradox has created a world where the better our tools get, the more helpless we feel when they stop working. Everyone has lived through the automation…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works. In the first half of 2026, we are going to see new APS-C cameras announced. One of them will be the EOS R7 Mark II. It's possible that we will see them before the end of February for the CP+ show…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article has been percolating in my mind for a while now, and as I got further into the various designs and Canon’s mentality, it became more of a synopsis of Canon’s methodology to date. The…

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's how it works. Rumors and talk about Canon's coming ‘Retro' style camera that will likely pay hommage to the Canon AE-1 to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2026 have been relatively quiet over the last few…

To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and sometimes at war with each other, being true is not a pledge to be a paragon of cohesion, predictable and…

Simple and widely known encryption technique The action of a Caesar cipher is to replace each plaintext letter with a different one a fixed number of places down the alphabet. The cipher illustrated here uses a left shift of 3, so that (for example) each occurrence of E in the plaintext becomes B in…

Worth the wait? Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a “combinatoric explosion.” Kyle Orland – Dec 11, 2025 8:50 pm | 92 One down, hundreds more to go Credit: Thekla, Inc. One down, hundreds more to go…

William Gibson is the most influential science fiction writer of his generation. In 1984 he published his groundbreaking debut novel, Neuromancer, to critical and public acclaim, and almost single-handedly defined cyberspace. He is a virtual recluse now rarely giving interviews. Yet five years ago…

Virtual Futures ’95, held at Warwick University, assembled some of the greatest philosophers, futurologists and seers from across the globe, to discuss the implications of new and future communications technologies on society, politics and self-mutilation! For all of the intellectual fluff…

NEW YORK (AP) — They snooze in parking garages, on side streets before the afternoon school run, in nap pods rented by the hour or stretched out in bed while working from home. People who make a habit of sleeping on the job comprise a secret society of sorts within the U.S. labor force. Inspired by…

D-Bus was introduced by GNOME folks about 20 years ago. For software made only 20 years ago, as opposed to 40 like X, it's surprisingly almost equally as bad. As a service, D-Bus is incredibly handy and useful, and overall, I believe the idea should absolutely be used by more apps. However, the…

Our purpose is to explore what personal computing could be when designed from first principles. We believe the current trajectory of personal computing is leading us to a less free world, and that only a new computing movement rooted in human dignity and creativity can change its course. Radiant is…

by Jordan Fulghum, November 2025 wow, everything ’s computer Most software doesn’t need hyperscale. It needs a computer that is fast, predictable, and always on. Over the past fifteen years, developers forgot this. We buried the simple idea of “a machine that runs your code” under layers of managed…

Map Camera, one of Japan’s largest photography retailers, has released its monthly sales charts for brand-new and used camera models. The Canon EOS R6 Mark III, PetaPixel‘s Camera of the Year, delivered an outstanding debut, topping the November sales charts “far ahead” of second-place. As reported…

SPhotonix says it has moved its so-called 5D Memory Crystal technology out of the lab and closer to real-world deployment, outlining plans to pilot glass-based cold storage systems in data centers over the next two years, according to remarks made during an interview with The Register. The UK…