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Building the right thing shouldn't take very long -- doing away with nonsense makes product development really fast"
My Plea to the W3C: Giving a semantic meaning to an "Obsolete" element. I'll cut right to the chase, here's my proposal: The `` element...
Been quite a fun week for people like me who enjoy following what’s happening in the various corners of the web. Since I have a bunch of scattered …
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those claims are overblown.
Or how those bloody Normans screwed up our language Are you an English-speaking monoglot like me? Feel faintly ashamed that you can only speak the one...
The speed of change in technology often appears to be the industry's defining characteristic. Nothing highlights that perception more than the recent and relentless march of AI advancements. But for as much as some things in technology change, many other things stay the same. Like vi! vi is a programming text editor that was created by...
Climate Change is happening and everyone is surprised. And yet we have known it was coming for over 50 years.
This post will be very plain. That is because is excellent in a way that is obvious and requires little explaining. is a minimalistic blogging service tha...
Exceptions are often a better way to handle errors than returning them as values. We argue that traditional exceptions provide better user and developer experience, and show that they even result in faster execution.
WM Motor filed for bankruptcy in October 2023, and Singulato and Aiways have left the market, too. An estimated 160,000 Chinese car owners are left in the lurch.
Romania and Latvia, both members of NATO, on September 8 accused Russia of violating their countries' airspace with military drones, escalating tensions between Moscow and the West.
It is with great sorrow but even greater fury that I have submitted my resignation from the NaNoWrimo Authors Board this morning. Why? Because they’ve come out with an absolutely insupportable posi…
Post prompted by a series of posts I read recently, written by Matthew, So1o, Simone, and Alex and also by posts on the 32bit.cafe. I wrote some 1000 …
The preferred tool of Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice and George R R Martin
A property agreement between two men, signed in 1061, includes heartfelt declarations of lifelong trust and faithfulness.
Git blame an infrastructure update
I look left and right, and I'm the only one who…
If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...
And how we are already fostering independent web communities
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Join us online, on the road, or in Washington, DC.
The man who invented the interactive fiction genre talks about its past and future.
CCP Games, the Icelandic developer behind long-running MMO Eve Online, is gearing up to share the keys to its universe.…
Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
This must be what killed the old No Time To Play wiki. You can thank "progress".
The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites.
The one-page guide to Vim: usage, examples, links, snippets, and more.
Exploring vim's builtin easy mode
The EU Council and its participants have decided to withdraw the vote on the contentious Chat Control plan proposed by Belgium, the current EU President.
Leading games executives recall their E3 memories and discuss its life, death and future
The Arecibo Telescope in Purto Rico, used for SETI research until its collapse in 2020 (Source) Almost anyone with any interest in astronomy, space travel, astrophysics, or old-fashioned science fi…
The New Leaf Journal’s short introduction to and history of RSS and related feed specifications such as Atom feeds and JSON feeds.
Lisp is an ambiguous category. But Common Lisp isn't, right? It's a restricted self-sufficient language, after all.
While ncurses still has a place in the modern world, ANSI escape codes may be better in some situations:
- you can use (almost) any programming language, not just those that have a curses binding or a foreign function interface;
- you're literally just printing out some short codes: that's both efficient and liberating;
- you can use features that modern terminal emulators have, but (n)curses doesn't.
As for the downsides:
- ANSI escapes are like coding in machine language – you'll need a cheatsheet;
- some hardware videoterminals never supported the standard;
ncursesdoes more useful work besides translating for those old things.
It's still good to have another tool in the toolbox, doubly so when it's easy and fun to tinker with.
The one where I share my dislike for WordPress (again)
Sometimes we can get carried away with adding bells and whistles to websites thinking it somehow makes things better. At the end of the day, design should conform to purpose.
DRAFT! work in progress!
Mark Zuckerberg's bet on the metaverse continues to be a money-bleeding endeavor, with the unit reporting billions of dollars in losses every quarter.
A major report on the remains of a stilt village that was engulfed in flames almost 3,000 years ago reveals in unprecedented detail the daily lives of England’s prehistoric fenlanders. Must Farm, a late Bronze Age settlement, dates to around 850 BC, with University of Cambridge archaeologists une
In the 1990s, computers were magic and we were wizards. Want proof? I offer below, Larry Wall’s foreword to Learning Perl from 1993. It greatly inspired a very young me who wandered into a book shop, picked up an odd book with llama on the cover and a seemingly misspelled title. The first few pages […]
An in-depth look at the Ada programming language, its history, and what it has to offer developers today. As well as a fistful of my humble opinions.
I always chuckle when folks mention they don't know what to blog about. It's easy, blog about what you like. Talk about the things that you are passionate ab...
Mass layoffs happen for all kinds of reasons, be it because of a bad financial bet, a failed game, a deal falling through, poor planning, or any number of other things. But when they do, human beings find their lives upended in response.
Automattic, the owner of WordPress.com and Tumblr, is reportedly striking deals with OpenAI and Midjourney to sell training data.
Contents1 What is modern?2 Beyond new features2.1 RAII2.2 Strong typing2.3 Compile-time programming3 Conclusion The term “Modern C++” is often used interchangeably with “Code using the new C++ standard”. Here, “new” […]
It's the 33rd anniversary of Lemmings! The classic videogame from Dundee's DMA Design, which helped put Scotland on the global games map.
A technical and root cause analysis of CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities from 2023.
The personal website of Knut Magnus Aasrud
An alternative to the official manual.
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.
An intriguing new entrant to the field.
Complements my own thoughts on the matter.
It's back!
A fast, friendly, functional language
But, all in all, we are likely looking at 50 million+ lines of code active to open a garage door, running several operating system images on multiple servers.
Cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko, who has uncovered many big data leaks over the years, and the CyberNews team discovered the exposed records.
pkpy is a lightweight(~ 15K LOC) Python interpreter for game scripting, built on C++ 17 with STL.
CPP-Terminal is a small and dependency-free C++ library for writing platform independent terminal-based applications. It follows the "Zero-overhead principle" and limits externally included files to the C++ STL.
One of the established and most popular programming languages is the C programming language. It is relatively easy to learn, and highly practical. Maybe surprisingly, the C programming language keeps evolving, slowly and carefully. If you have GCC 13 or LLVM (Clang) 16, you already have a compiler with some of the features from the … Continue reading C23: a slightly better C
A community-curated collection of web services that work without JavaScript.
Personal websites, reinvented. Postcard is a new way to create and host a personal website. No code or design skills required.
Publishing online is a wonderful activity. The more options available make it more likely that there is an option for everyone.
The first rule regarding personal websites is: “There are no rules.” This perspective I am about to share is limited, biased and unique to me, draw your own conclusions about the things you find.
After a month of exploring weird stuff on the internet, I’ve realized that the number one way that webmasters (to use a throwback term) can help combat the monotonous web is to just link to sites you think are cool.
The recent move among U.S. states to add digital “age verification” to websites which serve adult content is a troubling one. Digital age verification systems are rife with privacy concerns, many requiring you to upload your government ID to third-party vendors or even directly to the website in question. Privacy advocates and companies within the […]