Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’
Photos by Sami Kent | Edited by Brendan Spiegel Twenty years ago the man who recorded one of the most successful songs of all time was thrown off a motorbike by a car in Calabar, Nigeria. He hit his head on the road and was rushed to the hospital, where he lay for two weeks, […]
A short introduction to Interval Tree Clocks
published 2017-05-07, updated 2017-09-07 [ home ] This post is a rough transcription of a lightning talk I gave at dotScale 2017. One of the things I work on at Lima is master-master filesystem replication. In this kind of system, we need to track causality. In a nutshell, given two events modifying a given piece […]
IBM Quantum delivers on 2022 100×100 performance challenge
Two years ago, IBM® set an ambitious challenge for the quantum computing community: Develop quantum algorithms incorporating circuits with 100 qubits and gate depths of 100, while IBM would build a quantum computer capable of returning accurate values for those circuits in less than a day’s runtime. Today at the first-ever IBM Quantum™ Developer Conference […]
FaSTer: Atari ST Digital Magazine
One of the things in my big Atari ST haul from a couple months ago was an issue of FaSTer disk magazine. I had thought that it was a sealed copy, but although it was still in its shrink-wrap, it was not actually sealed. FaSTer was a Canadian magazine and what made it unique is […]
jQuery UI
jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Whether you’re building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice. Download jQuery UI 1.14.1 Custom Download Quick […]
Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates
demo_v1.0.18.mp4 It’s the year 2101. Corporations have taken over the world. The only way to be free is to join a pirate crew and start plundering the galaxy. The only mean of survival is to play basketball. Now it’s your turn to go out there and make a name for yourself. Create your crew and […]
Windmill Hiring Senior Front End (Svelte) Engineer in Paris
Looking for a senior, passionate and “cracked” frontend/full-stack engineer to work on the open-source developer platform Windmill: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill We are open to less senior candidates but a high-degree of autonomy and initiative will be expected after a ramp-up period. Our codebase is dense and the frontend is all in Svelte, it has a drag-n-drop app […]
Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 • 54 minutes Your browser does not support the audio element. Earlier this year, our Financial Controller, Jen, realized our Playdate inventory was 2,000 units short. How did that eventually lead us to a Circle K in North Las Vegas, and just how much should you tip for a roofing consultation, […]
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Amazon S3 now supports the ability to append data to an object
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports the ability to append data to an object. For the first time, applications can add data to an existing object in S3. Applications that continuously receive data over a period of time need the ability to add data to existing objects. For example, log-processing applications continuously add new […]