Drupal turns 25: From simple to complex — then simple again
It’s rare that a web product lasts 25 years, given how fast the industry cycles through technologies. But this month marks a quarter century of Drupal,...
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Swift Cross-Platform Framework Skip Now Fully Open Source
After three years of development, the team behind Skip, a solution designed to create iOS and Android apps from a single Swift/SwiftUI codebase, has announced their...
Read moreElection Denier Tina Peters Was ‘Pardoned’ by Trump. She’s Still in Prison
Former election clerk Tina Peters is a hero to conspiracy theorists, and even received an empty “pardon” from the president. Colorado’s governor has held firm against...
Read moreNetworks Hold the Key to a Decades-Old Problem About Waves
Two centuries ago, Joseph Fourier gave mathematicians a magical technique. He conjectured that it’s possible to write almost any function as a sum of simple waves,...
Read more[$] Who should vote in Fedora elections?
Creating fair governance models for open-source projects is not easy; defining criteria for participants to receive membership and voting rights is a particularly thorny problem for...
Read moreHow to Style the New ::search-text and Other Highlight-y Pseudo-Elements
Chrome 144 recently shipped ::search-text, which is now one of several highlight-related pseudo-elements. This one selects find-in-page text, which is the text that gets highlighted when...
Read moreMapping 6,000 Worlds: The New Era of Exoplanetary Data
In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun. Since then, the tally has risen steadily, and last year it crossed a...
Read moreThe Amazing Maser
While it has become a word, laser used to be an acronym: “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation”. But there is an even older technology...
Read moreAgoda’s secret to 50x scale: Getting the database basics right
Agoda is the Singapore wing of Booking Holdings, the world’s leading provider of online travel (the brand behind Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline, etc.). From January 2023 to...
Read moreWhat AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier
The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents. Earlier this month, Google announced Personal...
Read moreThe origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought
When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, his army of nearly 20,000 mercenaries became the ground zero of the “Great Pox,” the first...
Read more32 Essential Python One-Liners for Python’s 32nd Anniversary
Python turns 32. Explore 32 practical Python one-liners that show why readability, simplicity, and power still define the language today. The post 32 Essential Python One-Liners...
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