A few months into a collaboration with an astrophysics group, the simulation’s post-processing pipeline takes about an hour to walk 200 GB of output tables, and nobody is sure why. The data…
A CUNY astrophysics group spent months building a Python pipeline that took an hour to walk through 200 GB of simulation output. The grad student who wrote it had a good reason…
I bought a third USB-C charger last year because the first two would not fast-charge my phone, and the one that finally worked was the cheapest of the three. None of the…
Anthropic quietly started handing out six-month subscriptions to Claude Max 20x (a paid tier of Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant) to qualifying open-source maintainers earlier this year, and most of the developer press…
There is a specific kind of network problem that every sysadmin recognizes: the internet is broken, you do not know whether the fault is local, somewhere on the route, or at the…
C-Kermit is, depending on your age, either a tool you used to move files between very different computers in the early days of the internet, or something you have never heard of.…
A side project can be technically finished and still be invisible. That is the awkward gap this source is trying to close: building software has become easier, but getting the attention of…
I bought a pair of used SODIMMs (Small Outline DIMM memory modules, the compact RAM form factor used in laptops) for a ThinkPad T480 last week. The seller was a recycler, the…
I have been running CachyOS as my daily driver for about a year, and the August 2026 release is the first one I would describe as the release that decided what CachyOS…
A macOS app that stops responding will not give up the ghost by clicking the red traffic-light close button. The window stays open, the menu bar stays frozen, and your work is…
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