Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen2024-06-03 TL;DR: The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis). To install the new ve
Did you know that some Python modules can double-up as handy command-line tools? For example, you can run Python's webbrowser module from the command-line to open up a given URL in your default web br
I ran into this fascinating article (I wrote another blog post discussing it) and that got me thinking. How would I approach building a dead-drop implementation? For that matter, what do we need from
A few years ago, I came across a particularly evocative description of the website Are.na. I’ll describe Are.na in the plainest possible fashion first: it’s a website where you can privately or collab
Tools For Thought April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is available from MIT Press including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laure
A librarian in Louisiana – one of the first in the US to file a lawsuit for defamation against her detractors – is speaking out about the fight she’s been part of as censorship and books bans escalate
Illustration: The Verge Google launched its note-taking app NotebookLM last year for researchers, students, and anyone who needs to organize the information they’ve gathered. Now, users can now upload
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GitHub is ecstatic to unveil ArmⓇ-based Linux and Windows runners for GitHub Actions. This new addition to our suite of hosted runners provides power, performance and sustainability improvements for a
By Zed A. ShawWhen you think think of the word "robber" what comes to your mind? Do you imagine this guy? No, of course not. You imagine someone low class, poor, desperate, or crazy. Someone who needs
Written by David Anderson on June 5, 2024 What is PID 0? I get nerd-sniped a lot. People offhandedly ask something innocent, and I lose the next several hours (or in this case, days) comprehensively f
It's AdamW Essay Time again! If you're looking for something short and snappy, look elsewhere. Kamil Paral kindly informs me I'm a chronic sufferer of Graphomania. Always nice to know what's wrong wit
Can moral judgments be true or false, or is ethics, at bottom, a purely subjective matter, for individuals to choose, or perhaps relative to the culture of the society in which one lives? We might hav
Rene Haas is chief executive of Arm, the chip designer behind the processors in 99 per cent of all smartphones. After being bought by SoftBank in 2016, the UK-headquartered company became last year’s
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Lessons learned at the kitchen counter with the editor of Julia Child, Edna Lewis, M. F. K. Fisher, and James Beard. This is a story told in lunches. It is April of 2013, and I am in the kitchen with
In the annals of human thought, certain individuals stand out as beacons of reason and enlightenment, guiding humanity toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. Among the
Manatees can be tricky to count—even for trained professionals. But scientists might find some help with a new machine learning method. Manatees gather near Blue Spring. Photo courtesy Save the Manate
A study has found that software projects adopting Agile practices are 268 percent more likely to fail than those that do not. Even though the research commissioned by consultancy Engprax could be seen
OpenAI has raised tens of billions of dollars to develop AI technologies that are changing the world. But there's one glaring problem: it's still struggling to understand how its tech actually works.
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The smart home should be a natural evolution of our homes, bringing better appliances, better systems, and better experiences. But so far, it’s been complicated
The following is an adapted excerpt from writer and former Hakai Magazine editor Amorina Kingdon’s new book, Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water. It’s late September, and autumn colors fl
On the morning of 11 September 2001, an 18-year-old was driving his white Honda Civic on the way to work as a freelance web designer. It was a beautiful day under a sparkling blue sky, and as he sped
Scenes of Attention Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses Edited by D. Graham Burnett and Justin E. H. Smith Columbia University Press Share Pub Date: November 2023 ISBN: 9780231211192 Format: Paperbac
Coding and programming languages are the building blocks of our modern digital world. But although the most significant developments in this field have happened within living memory, the history of co
…and how we rewrote the heart of sync with confidence. Executing a full rewrite of the Dropbox sync engine was pretty daunting. (Read more about our goals and how we made the decision in our previous
August 2023 • discussion on Hacker News At a well-run seed stage startup, engineers will often describe the work experience as intoxicating. At a larger company, the best you get is "enjoyable". Why d
“Moveable Type,” the public art installation in the New York Times’s lobby, is ending its 17-year run. The Times, which is replacing the exhibit as part of an update to its lobby, will share further d
2 min read· Dec 31, 2023 -- 1. The Value of Analog Experiences Technology has undoubtedly revolutionized our lives, but it has also come at a cost. The internet has made many things more convenient an
The invention of the MP3 format in 1993 didn’t make any mainstream news headlines. In hindsight, however, it was a pivotal moment that would revolutionize music consumption, and more. Invented by the
A few months ago I had the opportunity to have dinner with Ramit Sethi. We shot the breeze about business topics for a little while — optimizing email opt-in rates, A/B testing to victory, pricing str
In a fitting illustration last week of the Chinese leadership’s unrelenting efforts to manipulate collective memory, an online essay with a shocking revelation about the wholesale disappearance of Chi
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I've been running software book clubs almost continuously since last summer, about 12 months ago. We read through Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Database Internals, Systems Performance, and we
A personal machine balances access to another world with the kinds of limits and boundaries that make a thing private. A lifelong fascination with technology begins with a single object. Think back to
Redict was originally created by Salvatore Sanfilippo under the name "Redis". Around 2018 he started losing interest in the project to pursue a science fiction career and gave stewardship of the proje
Sometimes, programming projects are too easy and boring. Sometimes, they're too hard, never ending or producing subpar results. This past week I had the pleasure of completing a project that felt like
On most CI/CD platforms, the developer experience of debugging tasks is painful. Part of the problem stems from having to git push to run workflows, which we've written about and solved by providing a
21 min read· Mar 10, 2016 -- As someone who creates open-source software, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software better. This is unavoidable: there’s an unending stream of pleas for
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