Ancient monoliths that capture my imagination
Ancient masonry gets repurposed at a cost to history
Revisiting a killer robot and a surprisingly memorable line
“Google, Our Patron Saint Of The Closed Web | Sealed Abstract”
Questions about Google’s plans for the .dev domain
“Why Do My Backed Up Files Appear Smaller On Backblaze Than On My Mac?”
Decimal and binary units explain the apparent size difference
Tell Congress To Put An Expiration Date On Unconstitutional Bulk Surveillance
A surveillance petition should protect the information it collects
Lenovo Breaks Web Security On Its Recent Laptops To Inject Ads
Superfish compromises encrypted browsing to insert advertising
Nixon’s Undelivered Moon Landing Failure Speech
The words prepared in case the astronauts never returned
More To The Nintendo 64 Logo Than Meets The Eye
A clever detail hidden in a familiar console logo
A senior software engineering opening in San Francisco
“What Doesn’t Seem Like Work?”
Paul Graham on recognizing work that suits you
A new wire protocol with familiar HTTP semantics
Treating a cluster’s resources as a shared pool
Google’s approach to scheduling and managing containers
A minimal operating system built around containers
“Comparing Virtual Machines And Linux Containers Performance”
How Docker and KVM compare in performance tests
Senate Republicans Propose Nixing Filibuster For Supreme Court Nominees
A proposal to confirm Supreme Court nominees by simple majority
Swatch To Release Smartwatch Within Three Months
A watchmaker’s skepticism meets the smartwatch market
Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, And Compose For Orchestrating Distributed Apps
A look at Docker’s tools for distributed applications
What Causes A Video To Go Viral?
A remarkable GoPro video and the appeal of sharing it
The Geneva Convention And Medics
The protection afforded to clearly identified medics
Service-oriented architecture, reduced to absurdity
YouTube’s Onerous New Terms For Musicians
Zoe Keating faces a difficult choice over her music
“The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck”
Choosing which things deserve your concern
Reporters Fumbling The Name Eyjafjallajokull
An Icelandic volcano gives television reporters a workout
The reasoning behind a legislature with two chambers
Accidental Tech Podcast On Golang
A server language discussion on an Apple-focused podcast
“The 6 Pillars Of Steve Jobs’s Design Philosophy”
How Jobs’s influences became a coherent approach to design
“Effectively Managing Memory At Gmail Scale”
Keeping garbage collection from interrupting the user experience
North Korea Hit With Internet Outage Days After Being Linked To Sony Hack
Better security should have been an investment before the hack
A minimal prompt with colors for status and branch
Wishing for easier, more secure payments on the web
Eleven more games, and too little time to play them
A private sale nearly doubles the trade-in offer
A missing gem gets recommended as its own alternative
A storage approach that favors fast writes
The surprisingly descriptive words behind ZIP codes
Devices, platforms, and services give three companies different strengths
“The Glasgow Haskell Compiler”
A look inside Haskell’s compiler and its optimizations
Capitalization isn’t my favorite way to control visibility
Go Isn’t So Parallel After All
The Go runtime’s single-core default disappoints
The history behind the units on our clocks
What I wish rental listings would tell me
Keeping implementation details out of permanent web addresses
Representing a fractional value with binary digits
A Python program for drawing hollow diamonds
Daigo’s last-pixel comeback against Justin Wong
A memorable story that probably isn’t true
“Because I’m A Twentysomething”
Advice for enjoying your own path through your twenties
What disappears when the Internet removes barriers