It’s been over 3 months since kicking off the Pre-Scheme Restoration project, so it’s well and truly time for a progress update! I’m pleased to report that the bulk of the port to R7RS has been completed, with approximately 75% … Read more
08 Oct 2024 https://youtu.be/nVRzCstyspQ TL;DR After a while, I decided to resume work on my game engine. I made a game for my son. I could have used an existing engine, but I chose to write everything from scratch because … Read more
We’ve just published builds of the first release candidate for FreeCAD 1.0. You can download them here. So far, we’ve enjoyed the contributions of users who are happy to be living on the edge with our weekly builds and reporting … Read more
The story of how I gained two world-firsts, somehow. This might sound hard to believe but, as far as I know, I published the first ever Language Server for HTML that reports syntax errors, and then I also gained a … Read more
At 11:30 one night in May 2024, a graduate student, Chuankun Zhang, saw a signal that physicists have sought for 50 years. As a peak rose from the static on his monitor at the research institute JILA in Boulder, Colorado, … Read more
Tue, Aug 27, 2024 5-minute read Over the past few months, I saw a growing amount of posts on X about the Gleam language (probably the X algorithm doing its thing), and decided to give it a try. I was … Read more
In 1966, American engineer and inventor Robert Dennard invented dynamic RAM cells – single-transistor cells, each bit of information is stored in the form of an electric charge of a capacitor. By that time, MOS technology was already capable of … Read more
Literally Does Nothing The NotFriend is a true marvel of non-engineering. It sits there. That’s it. Unparalleled Simplicity No buttons, no screens, no batteries. Just a beautiful, useless circle. Timeless Design Crafted from the finest plastic, the NotFriend will never … Read more
Supercomputers, also called a High-Performance Computing, or HPC, systems, are powerful machines capable of quickly working on large-scale computations. They allow scientists to gather and analyze data more quickly and simulate complex experiments that may be too impractical to conduct … Read more
MPPP – Molecule of the Month August 2023 – HTML-only version 1-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine,or Desmethylprodine or ˜reversed meperidine™ The first ˜designer drug™ disaster Simon CottonUniversity of Birmingham Molecule of the Month August 2023Also available: JSMol version. What is a designer drug? The … Read more