One of my projects over the past couple of years has been Synit, a Syndicate init (really, systemd and D-Bus) replacement. Synit underpins another project, #squeak-phone, a sketch of an alternative to Android for personal computing on a mobile device. … Read more
Over the past two decades, state lotteries have nearly doubled in size, driving a multibillion-dollar wealth transfer from low-income U.S. communities to powerful multinational companies. A nationwide investigation of state lotteries by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the … Read more
Ohio State University has settled a rivalry that has spanned nearly three years. Only this time it wasn’t with another Big Ten School, it was with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ohio State has officially registered a trademark for … Read more
A state machine can hold all possible states of something and the allowed transitions between these states. For example, the state machine for a door would have only two states (open and closed) and only two transitions (opening and closing). … Read more
Terra Ziporyn Snider of Severna Park, Maryland, still remembers how difficult it was for her son to wake up for his 7:17 a.m. first-period class when he was in high school. There were times he’d turn on the shower, then … Read more
State Machine Replication, and Why You Should Care with Doug Patti Season 2, Episode 5 | April 20th, 2022 BLURB Doug Patti is a developer in Jane Street’s Client-Facing Tech team, where he works on a system called Concord that … Read more
State Bar of California Addresses Breach of Confidential Data UPDATE: As of late Saturday, February 26, it appears that all State Bar records, confidential and public, have been removed from the site, with a note confirming this on the site. We … Read more
This chart splits positive (“want to learn”, “would use again”) vs negative (“not interested”, “would not use again”) experiences on both sides of a central axis. Bar thickness represents the number of respondents aware of a technology.
A lot happened in 2021. So much in fact that the survey was pushed back all the way to 2022! Between a slew of faster build tools and a new crop of back-end frameworks, the JavaScript world kept evolving. And … Read more
State of Rhombus Jack Firth, October 2021 Today, Racket promises language-oriented programming to its users. But this promise has a constraint: if you want to build a macro-extensible language, your language has to use S-expressions. This constraint is unfairly limiting, … Read more