POSTS BY David

Development / Technology

Math or Language: Which Part of the Brain Processes Computer Code?

10 Jan 2021 6:00am, by

Culture / Development

The Game of Life: The Sprawling Legacy of Mathematician John Horton Conway

7 Jan 2021 3:00pm, by

Culture / Linux

Precious Times: 2020’s Forgotten Tech Stories

1 Jan 2021 3:00am, by

By LukeB20161933 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, httpscommons.wikimedia.orgwindex.phpcurid=48724045

Culture

What a Systems Programmer Learned from Working at a Fast-Food Restaurant

26 Dec 2020 6:00am, by

vSpatial (via Oculus blog)

Culture / Development

TNS Gift Guide 2020: Practical Projects and Fabulous Fun

20 Dec 2020 6:02am, by

Culture / Technology

Days of Yore: On the Discovery of Abandoned Soviet-era Computers

13 Dec 2020 6:00am, by

Culture / Development

‘Advent of Code’ Builds a Programming Community Around Puzzles

6 Dec 2020 6:00am, by

Culture / Development / Linux

Greg Kroah-Hartman: Lessons for Developers from 20 Years of Linux Kernel Work

29 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

2020 Virtual Python Core Development Sprint - Wrap up - participants (screenshot via YouTube).png

Culture / Development

How Community Prevailed at Python’s Virtual Core Development Sprint

26 Nov 2020 9:00am, by

Lennart Poettering in 2015

Data / Linux / Security

Systemd’s Lennart Poettering Wants to Bring Linux Home Directories into the 21st Century

22 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek at the 2016 USO Gala, Washington, D.C., Oct. 20, 2016. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jim Greenhill)

Culture

The Great and Geeky Legacy of ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Alex Trebek

15 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

Culture

Millions of Remote Workers Are Now Thinking About Moving

8 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

VintCerf in 2007 - by Joi Ito - Creative Commons via Wikipedia

Culture / Edge / IoT / Networking

Vint Cerf’s Mission to Bring the Internet to Outer Space

1 Nov 2020 6:00am, by

Culture / Development / Technology

Lessons Swift Designer Chris Lattner Has Learned about Leadership

25 Oct 2020 6:00am, by

Culture / Development

Where Is the Complexity of Modern Software Coming from?

18 Oct 2020 6:00am, by

International_Space_Station_after_undocking_of_STS-132 by NASA - Crew of STS-132

Edge / IoT / Linux

The Hardware and Software Used in Space

11 Oct 2020 6:00am, by

Black_Swan_2_-_Pitt_Town_Lagoon - Creative Commons via Wikipedia by JJ Harrison at jjharison dot com dot au

Development / Security

A Site Reliability Engineer’s Advice on What Breaks Our Systems

4 Oct 2020 6:00am, by

Screenshot from GitLab's Brendan O'Leary's talk at GotoChicago 2020 - map showing location of some GitLab employees

Culture / DevOps

GitLab Shares ‘Secret Sauce’ for Running an Asynchronous Enterprise

27 Sep 2020 6:00am, by

Culture

Remembering Jack Rickard and His Groundbreaking BBS/ISP-Era Boardwatch Magazine

20 Sep 2020 6:00am, by

Sian Griffin at Rust Conf 2020 (glad we don't have to hand roll assembly)

Culture / Development

Rust Developer Explores the Lessons Learned from a Famous Pokemon Glitch

13 Sep 2020 6:00am, by

Culture / Development / Open Source

GitHub’s ‘ReadME’ Highlights Open Source Maintainers

7 Sep 2020 3:00am, by

Development

Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto on the Challenges of Updating a Programming Language

30 Aug 2020 6:00am, by

DHH - YouTube screenshot from SaaStock - Dismantling the myth of hustle culture

Culture

David Heinemeier Hansson Wants to Dismantle Silicon Valley’s Startup Culture

23 Aug 2020 6:00am, by

Kathryn McKinley - via Zoom - ACM SIGPLAN Ask Me Anything - 2020

Technology

Google Cloud Engineer Kathryn S. McKinley on Leadership, Mentoring, Garbage Collection, and Rust

16 Aug 2020 6:00am, by

Development / Machine Learning

Swift’s Chris Lattner on the Possibility of Machine Learning-Enabled Compilers

9 Aug 2020 6:00am, by

Bjarne Stroustrop smiling and holding chin - ask me anything 2020 (screenshot)

Development

C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Weighs in on Distributed Systems, Type Safety and Rust

2 Aug 2020 6:00am, by