Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life
Perkeep (née Camlistore) is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem. Perkeep is under active development. If you’re a […]
The Uselessness of “Fast” and “Slow” in Programming
Every field of human activity has its unique characteristics, and programming is no exception. One of the unique aspects of software is how it spans such a large number of orders of magnitude. A software engineer may be slicing and dicing nanoseconds, or they may be trying to accelerate a computation that will run across […]
I can build enterprise software but I can’t charge for it
How I spent 18 months building an AI avatar platform through war, economic collapse, and 120-hour weeks—and why I’m now looking for a partner to help me turn this into a real business. Go ahead. Talk to the avatar for 2 minutes. Ask it anything in English. Watch how it responds in real-time with synchronized […]
.NET MAUI Is Coming to Linux and the Browser, Powered by Avalonia
We are bringing .NET MAUI to Linux and to the browser, powered by Avalonia. For the past few months, we have been working on an Avalonia powered backend for .NET MAUI, with guidance and feedback from engineers in the MAUI ecosystem. What started as an experiment has grown into a project we are committing to, […]
Four strange places to see London’s Roman Wall
There are many places around the City of London to see its old Roman Wall, notably alongside Noble Street, in Barber Surgeons’ Meadow, through the Barbican, in St Alphage Garden and just outside the entrance to Tower Hill station. Here are four of the odder spots. Four strange places to see London’s Roman Wall 1) […]
Heroku Support for .NET 10
It’s that time of year for .NET when we get a new major version and a bunch of exciting features. .NET Conf 2025 kicked off earlier today, bringing with it the release of .NET 10, as well as ASP.NET Core 10, C# 14, and F# 10. Congrats (and a big thank you) to the .NET […]
Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better
Having access to multiple parallel CPU cores isn’t a new thing by any means, people have been programming in parallel for half a century now, but recent years we’ve found ourselves at an inflection point. Moore’s law is dying, beefy single cores are no longer keeping up. Modern computers come with multiple CPU cores, so […]
I didn’t reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours
Yesterday after receiving my yearly flu vaccine at the pharmacy I was offered a blood pressure test, which reported a reading that made the young pharmacist who had just given me my vaccine a bit worried. Off the back of this she offered me a 24 hour study, and then strapped a cuff to my […]
X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
Tuesday, 11 November 2025 19:07 UTC Here she blows! Sunspot region 4274 produced its strongest solar flare thus far since it appeared on the east limb and the sixth strongest solar flare of the current solar cycle. An impressive long duration and highly eruptive X5.1 (R3-strong) solar flare peaked this morning at 10:04 UTC. It […]
Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to redefine software dev
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