CentOS Linux 7 will reach EOL on Sunday
Because CentOS Linux was derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, users migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux can continue to use many of the same techniques and elements with minimal training, while also gaining more features, tools, support, and value. To further assist in your migration planning and execution, the CentOS Linux migration assessment […]
Psion: The Last Computer
Special Feature The Series 5 pocket computer from Psion was launched 10 years ago this week. It was a remarkable achievement: entirely new silicon, a new operating system, middleware stack and applications were developed from scratch in just over two years. This was the last time anyone undertook such a daunting task: it may be […]
US prosecutors recommend Justice Department criminally charge Boeing
Washington — U.S. prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Justice Department (DOJ) must decide by July 7 whether to prosecute Boeing. The recommendation of prosecutors […]
Cosmopolitan v3.5.0
Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn’t need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and […]
Apple’s Silicon Fab Next to Homes
In early 2015, Apple started stealth semiconductor fabrication activities in a facility located at 3250 Scott Boulevard in Santa Clara, California.[1] Like some sort of Skunkworks, Apple codenamed the facility “ARIA” and even tried to use the codename on regulatory paperwork. The ARIA semiconductor fabrication facility operated less than three hundred feet from thousands of […]
From RSS to My Kindle
Building website EPUBs with Python Last year I wrote about how I built feedi, a personal feed reader, and started using it as my front page to the web. In the months since I published that post, I continued to tweak the app, observing my reading habits, experimenting with new features, and discarding the ones […]
Resilient Sync for Local First
When I started programming in the 80s, the situation was simple: data was written to a file on a local disk. If files needed to be exchanged, a floppy disk was simply inserted into another computer and edited. Later, floppy disks and CD drives disappeared and files were either exchanged by e-mail or the data […]
A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference (2019)
(I’ve been editing this post on and off for almost a year. I’m not really happy with it, but I suspect I never will be.) Several months ago I gave a talk at work about Hindley-Milner type inference. When I agreed to give the talk I didn’t know much about the subject, so I learned […]
Weighing Up Galileo’s Evidence
Map of the universe according to the theories of Tycho Brahe, from Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1660 © Granger/Bridgeman Images. It is one of the most famous quotations that was never said: Eppur si muove (And yet it moves). Galileo Galilei’s muttered protest symbolises the triumph of scientific rationality over blinkered, obstructive theology. In the face […]
Copy-on-Write Performance and Debugging
Erik Mavrinac This is a follow-up to our previous coverage of Dev Drive and copy-on-write (CoW) linking. See our previous articles from May 24, 2023, October 13, 2023, and November 2, 2023. Dev Drive was released in Windows 11 in October, 2023, and will be part of Windows Server 2025 this fall, along with an […]