New Southern Indian Ocean search for MH370 seeks answers for families
TL;DR Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard; after two unsuccessful searches, a US-based…
Approachable Swift Concurrency — A Practical Guide to Async/Await
TL;DR A concise guide explains Swift's concurrency model: async/await for suspension, Tasks and TaskGroups for managing concurrent work, and actors/MainActor…
How the British Empire Built a Resilient Global Subsea Telegraph Ring
TL;DR By about 1902 the British Empire had largely completed the Red Line subsea telegraph network, a global ring that…
Times New American: State Department’s Typeface Swap and Its Meaning
TL;DR On December 9 Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered a return to 14-point Times New Roman for State Department…
Fucking Approachable: Practical Guide to Swift Concurrency, Tasks and Actors
TL;DR This guide breaks down Swift's concurrency features — async/await, Tasks, TaskGroups, and actor-based isolation — aiming to make them…
curl bans strcpy too, replacing it with a checked memcpy-based curlx_strcopy helper
TL;DR In a Dec. 29, 2025 blog post, curl lead Daniel Stenberg described removing strcpy from the curl codebase and…
State Department Orders Return to Times New Roman, Undoing Calibri Default
TL;DR On Dec. 9 Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed State Department documents to use 14-point Times New Roman, reversing…
What Is a Preamp, and Do I Really Need One? — A Practical Guide
TL;DR A preamplifier prepares audio signals for amplification by bringing them to line level, selecting sources, and controlling volume. Whether…
Non-Zero-Sum Games: Mapping Cooperation Across Theory, Nature, Ethics, and AI
TL;DR Non-Zero-Sum Games is a themed online resource that collects writing on cooperation across disciplines, including game theory, ethics, economics,…
Tips for Keeping a Digital Diary and Why You Should Start Sooner
TL;DR A WIRED contributor reflects on a decade of digital journaling and says she wishes she'd begun earlier. The piece…