September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, MO. A celebration of self-hosting and homelabs of all sizes.

Two and a half-ish years ago (late February 2024) I had emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder. I had been meeting with a nutritionist about my digestive issues for a couple years (after trying to figure diet improvements out myself), and working my…

The Fourier transform is a method of transforming an input signal from the time domain to the frequency domain. It has a huge range of applications, for instance audio engineers can pick out individual undesired frequencies in a song with the Fourier…

AI forced me to abandon evidence-based best pedagogy practices, focus on oral and written exams, and redo most assignments. Here is what we did in 17-645...

Police didn't care that Linsey Isaacs' car was the wrong color, and wasn't damaged. They still arrested her because of Flock data.

Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.

The two-week trial in New Mexico centered on accusations Facebook deceived users about a data breach.

A powerful coastal storm is hammering North Carolina with massive surf, flooding and serious damage along Highway 12.

Postgres SELECT DISTINCT performs surprisingly poorly. We explain why and how we mitigated it.

FORMER's new film, "The Illusion of Control," goes beyond Cloudbreak and celebrates Fijian surf culture and the local surfers who call the iconic break home.

[This is a guest post by Amit Sahai. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] When I was an undergraduate student, I remember talking with…

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

NASA says the storm underwent “explosively rapid intensification” over extraordinarily warm Pacific waters.

A new series of South Pacific earthquakes highlights a tectonic zone capable of generating devastating ocean-wide tsunamis.

I was intrigued by Jev and the self-hostable projects appearing around it, such as OpenJev and SemIf . Reading about them introduced me ...

Massive righthand slabs are detonating beside Cabo’s iconic Arch as the Category 5 storm churns offshore.

An interactive story of America's street names. Search a theme, or browse the ones already mapped.

While Muse was building my website, one subagent ran on a model called azure/muse-special. So I dug through the filesystem again.

What happens when you apply CIA-style analysis normally used to understand China or Russia to your favorite sports team?

A certain nuclear power plant had a Windows NT 4.0 machine running as late as 2007. The reason is interesting.

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A tested LangGraph Agent Server composition let an A2A task update replace a pending action after its approval view was read. See the historical A2A scope gap, the evidence, and the use-time defense.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer.

In It May Be Possible to Improvise A High Grade Bioshelter, Adin Richards discusses the possibility of improvising defenses against an environmental threat such as mirror bacteria.…

I finally built Mathy, a little project I’ve been thinking about for a couple years. It’s free, and no account is required if you want to try it on iOS or web. I use Math Academy daily…

If you weren’t on campus this summer, then something you didn’t see – perhaps by design – was the installation of hundreds of small eyeball-shaped surveillance cameras.…

On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.

In a 2-1 decision, a federal appeals court upheld the Department of Defense's blacklisting of Anthropic.

Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with the release of lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays, initially to Microsoft Excel for Windows…

At Roland Garros airport on Réunion island, the ceiling design funnels a light tropical breeze into the terminal

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.