Reviewed: Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett Yale University Press, 445 pp., $35.00; $24.00 (paper) The Vienna that Richard Cockett explores is not a sensuous city or a grand city of art. It … Read more
A review written by Dorothy Hodgkin (pictured around 1960) is among a trove of reports released by the Royal Society. Credit: Daily Herald Archive/National Science & Media Museum/SSPL via Getty The UK Royal Society has more experience of peer review … Read more
When I mention that we use Rust on the embedded ESP32 platform the most common reaction is a jaw-dropping “This is possible?!”. Yes, it is indeed possible! – And we at STABL Energy have used it successfully for over a … Read more
Dear Developer, Feeling anxious about giving and receiving code reviews is a common, widely-documented experience for software developers. This experience is called code review anxiety. Code review anxiety is characterized by a fear of judgment, criticism, and negative evaluation, and … Read more
Code review antipatterns [Simon Tatham, 2024-08-21] Introduction Code review seems like a great idea, right? Two developers looking at the same code means two chances to spot problems; it spreads understanding of the way the project is evolving; the reviewer … Read more
NOTE: Click on any of the photos on this page to see a larger version of the photo. The two photos above show the engine as it is currently displayed at the museum. Note that the engine is mounted over … Read more
Posted on 12 Jul 2024, tagged LinuxSurfaceMicrosoftOperating systemtech Background I bought a Surface Pro 4 at 2016. It has an Intel Core m3-6Y30 CPU and 4GB memory. The spec is not that impressive even compared to an average laptop released … Read more
[This is one of the finalists in the 2024 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve … Read more
Enlarge Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I’ve ever written. I’m a cosmologist—I study the origins, structure, and evolution of the Universe. I love science. I live … Read more
The Moaan InkPalm Plus and the Kobo Clara HD. It is probably not surprising that I, John Moltz, the world’s leading iPhone mini superfan would also want to use a small e-reader. That’s just science. After spending years reading ebooks … Read more