What Happened to the Japanese PC Platforms?
(This was originally posted on a social media site; I’ve revised and updated it for my blog.) The other day a friend asked me a pretty interesting question: what happened to all those companies who made those Japanese computer platforms that were never released outside Japan? I thought it’d be worth expanding that answer into […]
100x Faster CPUs from Finland’s New Startup
20 Sep 2024 3 min read Dina Genkina is the computing and hardware editor at IEEE Spectrum Flow Computing In an era of fast-evolving AI accelerators, general purpose CPUs don’t get a lot of love. “If you look at the CPU generation by generation, you see incremental improvements,” says Timo Valtonen, CEO and co-founder of […]
The Age of Software Artisans
Writing software is dead, long live writing software! The world always changes. It’s the only true, everything else is guessing. People who’ve worked in tech for a long time know that things come and go. We’ve been through this before, and we’ll go through it many times again. Maybe they do now,in this decadent era […]
Tetris Game Shows Promise in Reducing PTSD Symptoms
The 1980s video game proves to make a notable difference with intrusive memories. A recent study led by researchers at Uppsala University has uncovered promising results for a simple yet effective intervention in alleviating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The research, published in BMC Medicine, focuses on the use of video games, particularly the […]
Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done. The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back and forth a ton. […]
What Is a Particle?
Given that everything in the universe reduces to particles, a question presents itself: What are particles? The easy answer quickly shows itself to be unsatisfying. Namely, electrons, photons, quarks and other “fundamental” particles supposedly lack substructure or physical extent. “We basically think of a particle as a pointlike object,” said Mary Gaillard, a particle theorist […]
Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem
Welcome to a new series of posts that will take you on a visual journey through the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) and its tooling ecosystem! As part of the efforts to design OAS 3.2 and 4.0 “Moonwalk”, I wanted to figure out how different sorts of tools work with the OAS. Moonwalk is an opportunity to […]
Logging all C++ destructors, poor mans run-time tracing
I recently faced a challenging issue with an application that wasn’t shutting down correctly, either segfaulting or terminating without an active exception. Running the program via valgrind to check for memory leaks wasn’t possible because the program couldn’t perform its cleanup if it didn’t shut down correctly. This article covers adding runtime instrumentation provided by […]
X capitulates to Brazil’s Supreme Court
/ In a surprising move Elon Musk’s social media site, X, had agreed to abide by Brazilian court orders. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: The Verge Brazilian fan account owners might have a reason to rejoice, as X could be returning to Brazil. According to the New York Times, in a court filing […]
LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet
Artist’s impression of a quantum-entangled pair of top quarks. (Image: CERN) Quantum entanglement is a fascinating feature of quantum physics – the theory of the very small. If two particles are quantum-entangled, the state of one particle is tied to that of the other, no matter how far apart the particles are. This mind-bending phenomenon, […]