Lago – Open-Source Usage Based Billing – Is Hiring Technical Account Executives
Based: Paris, France; San Francisco, US In-office requirement: At least 3 days per week The Role As a Technical Account Executive, you’ll play a crucial role in connecting our platform to our customers’ needs. You don’t need an engineering degree or years of coding experience, but you do need curiosity, the ability to learn quickly, […]
Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets
Qantas says it has been forced to delay several of its flights to South Africa at the last minute due to warnings of falling debris from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth. Ben Holland, the head of Qantas’s operations centre, said there was often little advance notice of where the rockets would fall over the […]
GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums & Preservation Projects
GOG made a press announcement today to note they’ve joined the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP). Nice to see a continued and expanding focus on preserving games, while some publishers continue entirely shutting their games years after release and preventing people playing them. From the press release: “GOG was created […]
Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th
/ Microsoft 365 apps will continue to function after the Windows 10 end of support date, but there could be issues over time. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Microsoft Microsoft says it will no longer support Office apps, known as Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 later this year. The support cutoff coincides […]
Why does Cloudflare Pages have such a generous Free tier?
This site is hosted with Cloudflare Pages and I’m really happy with it. When I explored how to create a site like mine in 2025, I wondered why there’s an abundance of good, free hosting these days. Years ago, you’d have to pay for hosting, but now there’s tons of sites with generous free tiers […]
How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi
As of the time of writing this, the Raspberry Pi 5 has recently been released. Some people are buying it excitedly, while others think that its value over previous models doesn’t warrant the price increase. In any event, many people will be implementing various projects on their new (or old) Pis. As most Pi-havers know, […]
Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report
About ninety second-hand bookshops in the UK were reported as closed in 2024. This figure is based on reports to The Book Guide, usually by customers, occasionally by the bookdealers themselves or from their announcements. It compares to about 40 in 2023 and 60 in 2022. I say ‘reported as closed’ in 2024 because some […]
Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large texts. in Rust
Ropey is a utf8 text rope for Rust, designed to be the backing text-buffer for applications such as text editors. Ropey is fast, robust, and can handle huge texts and memory-incoherent edits with ease. Example Usage // Load a text file. let mut text = ropey::Rope::from_reader( File::open(“my_great_book.txt”)? )?; // Print the 516th line (zero-indexed). println!(“{}”, […]
WTF Happened in 1971?
“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.” – F.A. Hayek 1984
Build a Database in Four Months with Rust and 647 Open-Source Dependencies
The Database and its Open-Source Dependencies Involve and Contribute Back to the Upstreams Inside Out: The Database’s Open-Source Components An Open-Source Twin and the Commercial Open-Source Paradigm Future Works The Database and its Open-Source Dependencies Building a database from scratch is often considered daunting. However, the Rust programming language and its open-source community have made […]