MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games
MonoGame is a simple and powerful .NET framework for creating games for desktop PCs, video game consoles, and mobile devices using the C# programming language. It has been successfully used to create games such as Streets of Rage 4, Carrion, Celeste, Stardew Valley, and many others. It is an open-source re-implementation of the discontinued Microsoft’s […]
They all said Hormuz closure would be brief. What if they were wrong?
FOR MANY years, shipowners on panels and quarterly calls have been asked: What happens if the Strait of Hormuz closes? The response was almost always the same: if it ever happens, the closure will be brief, because the world cannot afford for it to be long. Now that the strait is effectively closed, this response […]
”Warn about PyPy being unmaintained”
It seems that PyPy is not being actively developed anymore and is phased out even by numpy (numpy/numpy#30416). There’s no official statement from the project, but the numpy issue is from a PyPy developer. I added a warning to avoid users assuming PyPy properly supported and developed Python distribution.
Science Fiction Is Dying. Long Live Post Sci-Fi?
By Matthew Claxton Written science fiction is dying. Long term trends see fewer books making their way to shelves in the sci-fi section. Although sci-fi looks healthy from a perspective of films, video games, and TV, written sci-fi has long been the wellspring of the vast majority of new ideas, aesthetics, movements, and tropes within […]
Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers
Published: Feb 27, 2026 on dev.to by Dimitrios Kechagias #aws #googlecloud #cloud #devops Time for the (not exactly) yearly cloud compute VM comparison. I started testing back in October 2025, but the benchmarking scope was increased, not just due to more VM families tested (44), but also due to testing the instances over more regions […]
Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes
# Building ghostmd *A note-taking app that gets out of the way.* ## Why plain markdown? Every note app eventually dies. When it does, your notesshould survive. Plain .md files will outlive every app,every company, every format war. – No database migrations– No export button needed– grep works. git works. Everything works.– **Your files. Your […]
How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
copyCopychevron-down Models Run the new Qwen3.5 LLMs including Medium: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, 27B, 122B-A10B, Small: Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B and 397B-A17B on your local device! Qwen3.5 is Alibaba’s new model family, including Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, 27B, 122B-A10B and 397B-A17B and the new Small series: Qwen3.5-0.8B, 2B, 4B and 9B. The multimodal hybrid reasoning LLMs deliver the strongest performances for […]
Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?
Ecuador writes: Tom’s Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper. Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions that Geekbench doesn’t scale well, but doesn’t really make clear just how bad the […]
$3T Blind Spot: US nonprofits
Everyone’s arguing about the federal budget U.S. nonprofits handle more revenue than the GDP of the United Kingdom. They are subject to less disclosure than a single publicly traded company. We processed 4 million IRS 990 filings. The data is public. It’s just that almost nobody looks. $0T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year 0M […]
The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul
Everybody can see there’s a crisis in New York publishing. Even the hot new books feel lukewarm. Writers win the Pulitzer Prize and sell just few hundred copies. The big publishers rely on 50 or 100 proven authors—everything else is just window dressing or the back catalog. You can tell how stagnant things have become […]