After a bank failure in the US, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) steps in as the receiver of the failed bank’s assets. The FDIC typically takes over the bank’s operations, works to sell off its assets, and use the … Read more
IN 2011 BEN MOL, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University, in Melbourne, came across a retraction notice for a study on uterine fibroids and infertility published by a researcher in Egypt. The journal which had published it … Read more
A few months ago I saw a blog post touting fancy new SSE3 functions for implementing vector floor, ceil, and round functions. There was the inevitable proud proclaiming of impressive performance and correctness. However the ceil function gave the wrong … Read more
Every time I hear about software maintenance as a distinct activity, I cringe. That’s because it is based on the outdated notion that first software is developed, then it is maintained. But that is not how software development works today. … Read more
There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge. There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge. | there.oughta.be/ HomeAbout 20 December 2022 I present to you: The GB Interceptor. It is an adapter that goes between an unmodified Game Boy … Read more
Two-and-a-half years on from when the pandemic shuttered workplaces and offices around the globe, the demand to retain one major element of the ‘new normal’ remains very high: remote work. Not a week goes by without a major company asking … Read more
As front-end developers, we’ve wished for a lot of things over the years — ways to center things in CSS, encapsulate styles, set an element’s aspect ratio, get finer-grained control over our colors, select an element based on its children’s … Read more
When we knew the media mattered: young Ben Franklin in his brother’s print shop in Boston. (Getty Images.) This is another post about the travails of the media. It will start with some old questions, build to some new ones, … Read more
I consider myself fairly “up” with popular trends. Perhaps I don’t know every celebrity crush, or every new thing that every TikTok personality likes, or really what teenagers are excited (or mad) about, but I pride myself on knowing about … Read more
The habits of authoritarianism run deep. Obedience is only the most superficial. Deeper is to look to authority as a source of truth. Deeper still is to look first for “who is in charge” when seeking to understand and change … Read more