Children’s book about Apache Kafka.

Article describes how to connect a non-WiFi computer to a WiFI network via a Raspberry Pi.

Author shares his perspective on common Elixir coding patterns.

Decode error codes from OpenGL, Win32, COM, Vulkan, HTTP

Comprehensive overview of some interesting features of the console object.

A recent study title Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects found that the most copied code snippet ever happens to be buggy.

An overview on unicode codepoint combinations and how they apply to emojis.

A split keyboard kit made with through hole components. Inspired by the Corne, Plaid and Discipline keyboards.

CPU utilization has become a deeply misleading metric: it includes cycles waiting on main memory, which can dominate modern workloads.

Real-Time Strategy game where you control your units by writing JavaScript code.

The Unix Game is a programming contest where players solve coding challenges by constructing “pipelines” of UNIX text processing utilities to compute the solution.

Q&A with a motion graphics designer for the sci-fi series The Expanse.

Examples of SSH tunnels with a visual representation of the traffic flows.

Basic overview of fast userspace mutex (aka futex), how they work and how they’re used to implement the more familiar synchronization primitives in higher-level APIs and languages.

A Lego microscope: simple to build and does not need precision optics nor 3D printed parts.

Collection of articles, of varying degrees of detail, about the beam VM. Ranging from VM internals to memory layout and opcodes.

A guide to heating plumbed household water with fire, and all related systems. Useful for anyone who wishes to heat up water by burning wood.

A “Granny Knot” is a shoelace knot which sits crooked and comes loose. Article details “one simple trick” for keeping shoes neatly and securely tied.

Article compares the facts presented in the book Why We Sleep with the scientific literature and concludes the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, and misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources.

Applying information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in the anime Death Note.