jnack
“Correlation is not causation,” and I hope that Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announcing his retirement from Google has nothing to do with my return. The news brings to mind a couple of fun memories: Semi-legendary story: Some Googler was chilling in what he thought was a conference room...
Dwight
My apologies for the radio silence. I just stumbled across the University of California Press’ Luminos publishing project. From their FAQ page: “Luminos is UC Press’ new Open Access (OA) monograph publishing program. It will make a version of the digital edition of scholarly monographs available...
Abel Jansma
I was completely mesmerised by the swallows in Portugal, and while playing around with some origami paper, I came up with this simple design for an origami swallow. It is based on the famous ‘crane base’ (steps 1-7), and implements many folds used in the standard Orizuru crane (inside-reverse...
AbdulFattaah Popoola
If I only had more time, I would do so much more Overworked manager putting in 60-hour weeks It’s alarming how many professionals see overworking as a badge of honour. Here is the fact: if you are constantly overwhelmed and too busy – something somewhere somehow is wrong. Burning yourself...
Michael
I recently got my hands on a USB microphone, namely the Samson Meteor Mic, a large diaphragm electret condenser microphone that not only looks cute but also has overall good reviews online. However, when testing the microphone I was rather disappointed by the annoying background noise that is...
mikolalysenko
“Can we do to web services what Linux did to the operating systems?” Imagine what the web with a P2P GitHub, a P2P YouTube, a P2P Twitter, a P2P Google search, and so on. But getting started with P2P services remains difficult, because: “There is no P2P PostGRES!” This is a very hard problem, so...
John Moltz
Competing rumors regarding Apple’s AR glasses have come out in recent weeks, creating a game of one-upmanship in the rumorsphere. In mid-May, Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple Glasses were coming in 2022 at the earliest. A week later, Jon Prosser said nah, sorry, brah, Apple Glasses are coming in...