libevent is the second best thing that has ever happened to me. If you are doing asynchronous programming of any kind whatsoever1, you should be using libevent or an appropriate interface to it. (The first best thing that's ever happened to me?...

I did not know that there were so many alternative lyrics to Frère Jacques out there, including ones in many different languages.

Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, recommended by shabda and available free on the web from the University of Virginia. On that note, what's a good serious economic analysis of post-scarcity systems? This reading list is...

(SCENE: the couch. SASHA, the cat, is asleep across my forearms while I code.) (maradydd frees an arm from under the cat and pops open a can of Red Bull.) RED BULL CAN: *crrrack* SASHA: Mrap! (SASHA wakes up and starts nosing at the can, with...

An enterprising open-source hacker who goes by the moniker Famulus, using polywell plasma confinement, has achieved desktop-scale nuclear fusion. There are some really lovely photos of plasmas and lab equipment on the blog, and all the STL files for...