How CUE schemas eliminate type assertion boilerplate when handling multiple IoT sensor types in a home automation system

A purpose built event store database built in Rust

Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across…

Not only did I give internet strangers unrestricted access to send me completely anonymous physical messages, but I also self-hosted the entire site on a Raspberry Pi

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

Microsoft Teams is about to deal a heavy blow to those who like to work from home for peace and quiet. In a new feature update rolling out December 2025, the platform will track a worker’s location using the office Wi-Fi, to see whether you’re actually there…

Use live streams as screensavers/lock screens on MacOS - hauxir/macos-live-screensaver

Deriving the basic mathematical properties of the Smith chart from electrical engineering

Editor's Note New research offers a potential explanation for why some patients retain toxic metals long after undergoing an MRI. Published in the journal

When you paste ChatGPT’s response instead of your own feedback, you’re not being helpful. You’re being lazy and creating more work for everyone.

The tech works. The policy’s in place. So why are heat pumps still a hard sell? What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps?

The bare-bones Mac writing app represents a literalist sensibility that is coming back into vogue as A.I. destabilizes our technological interactions.

Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task.…

The OSM dataset is huge, and keeps growing every day. Great news, of course, but sometimes the sheer volume can be overwhelming – there are just gobs and gobs of data! Hence, we created GOB (“Geo-Object Bundle”), a new file format that makes tackling OSM…

I was recently flying between HKG & LHR via British Airways. I’d done the same flight back in 2023, and remember relying on the in-flight entertainment for the 14 hour journey. However, this time on my way to London, they had an interesting offer: Free WiFi…

From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat