Why software engineers benefit from being a little bit cynical
TL;DR A recent essay argues that a modest dose of cynicism helps engineers understand how large tech organizations function and…
Hacker News Reimagined Through Prime Indexing and ζ-Notation Mapping
TL;DR A GitHub Pages project presents a Hacker News-style listing where each entry is paired with a ζ(n) label following…
PySDR: Hands-on guide to software-defined radio and DSP using Python
TL;DR PySDR is an open, visual textbook that introduces software-defined radio (SDR) and digital signal processing (DSP) using Python code…
Tropical moist broadleaf forest loss flips Africa’s forests to a carbon source
TL;DR A new high-resolution satellite analysis finds that African forests and woody savannas shifted from a net carbon sink to…
Handling Rust Errors Without External Crates: Patterns Using std Only
TL;DR A Rust developer outlines a method for building error types using only the standard library, avoiding popular crates like…
No, it’s not a battleship — proposed ‘Trump’ warship resembles a large missile cruiser
TL;DR The administration’s recently announced large surface combatant has been described as a battleship, but the design lacks the guns…
Victor LaValle’s subversive cosmic-horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom
TL;DR Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom retells H.P. Lovecraft’s The Horror at Red Hook from the perspective of…
Why ‘Deathbed Advice’ on Social Media Often Feels Cheap and Unhelpful
TL;DR An essay critiques the popular social-media trope of sharing supposed 'deathbed' regrets as advice, arguing such posts are often…
Scratchapixel launches free, from-scratch computer graphics learning hub
TL;DR Scratchapixel publishes a free, beginner-oriented collection of computer graphics lessons, a blog, a Vulkan-focused course project, and an in-progress…