wrestling the web from corporate control requires making it boring again It’s hard to imagine now, but in the 2000s web browsers were quite boring and didn’t get updated very often. IE7 being released was a huge deal (indeed, Microsoft … Read more
Sep 12, 2024 (Electronics) Most speakers emit sound in all directions because they are relatively small compared to the wavelength. Audible sounds have wavelengths of up to several meters, so an acoustically “large” speaker might not even fit in your … Read more
I recently rewrote the interests section of my blog to be more concise. The primary interest I wrote down was “making things that alter thinking at scale.” When I distilled what I believed to be one of my long-term goals … Read more
C. J. Date’s Sigmod 1983 keynote, “Database Usability”, was prescient. Usability is the most important thing to the customers. They care less about impressive benchmarks or clever algorithms, and more about whether they can operate and use a database efficiently … Read more
Philip Maughan is a writer and researcher based between London and Berlin. VANTAA, Finland — It’s not easy to breathe in outer space. To keep crew members on the International Space Station alive, electrolysis is used to split water from the space … Read more
Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a global public cloud with simple, developer-friendly ergonomics. If you’ve got a working Docker image, we’ll transmogrify it into a Fly Machine: a VM running on our hardware anywhere in the world. Try it … Read more
This website is dedicated to rescuing and presenting for the first time ever easy-to-read, fully annotated Elizabethan plays. My hope is that some of you will be inspired to try to read some of these great plays. William Lyon Phelps, … Read more
Breaking up has always been difficult for me. I tend to fall in love with being in love, and continue a relationship well past the point of futility. And so it is with my oldest love, writing desktop software. I’m … Read more