Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here's some help.

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The only way many tech workers in the US can get a long break is by quitting their job. So lots of them do that every few years, which is partly why the average tenure in our industry is at an atrocious 18 months. But this terrible rate of churn is often…

An interactive deep dive into how the Burrows-Wheeler transform works for compression and for genomics sequence alignment algorithms.

A novel data compression framework. Contribute to facebook/openzl development by creating an account on GitHub.

It takes ten years for the culture of a great company to fall apart once the CEO seat is given to someone without an engineering or product background. That's been the story of Boeing, Intel, and now Apple. Legendary American companies that all got lost when…

I see a lot of bad system design advice. One classic is the LinkedIn-optimized “bet you never heard of queues” style of post, presumably aimed at people who are…

The world's most impractical 1000-pixel display and anyone in the world can draw on it

China builds towers in a park, while America builds squat mid-rise blocks. The difference comes down to regulation, not culture.

Or, how to handle being sentenced to freedom, and handle it effectively, and authentically, and responsibly

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs!

A release announcement showcases how the user's experience is better today than it was yesterday. That sounds obvious, but most release announcements seem to forget that there's a user at all.