Fair warning: The above clip is filled with uncensored profanity and other content definitely not safe for work. The full trailer for Nick Kroll’s animated Big Mouth show, which is streaming all…

In this post, you'll find out how I built and scaled a distributed web crawler, and especially how I dealt with the technical challenges that ensued.

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In this post, you'll find out how I built and scaled a distributed web crawler, and especially how I dealt with the technical challenges that ensued.

This short essay will tell you about my favorite macro, nest , discuss the modularity of syntax extension, and use the implementation of that macro as an illustration for how to use defmacro , syntax-rules and syntax-case , providing along the way a comparison…

A deep-dive into Mexico's remarkable string of natural disasters

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Much has been said about the benefits of Free monads. The idea of expressing computation as a data type is very powerful. Separating interpretation from representation gives us a lot of freedom, but what are its costs?

A comparison between India and China shows the differences as well as similarities.

Tweets over the weekend confirm what we long suspected.

This is an odd story that involves a flight instructor, his family, and a single-minded request. The whole thing was so strange, in fact, that the

A couple of months ago I wrote a toy program called whitespacer. Ever since, I’ve had this gnawing feeling that I could have done it better; that it could have been written in a more performant manner.

A contract with a tech giant can put a startup on the map with venture capitalists and the market at large. That’s what happened for Netskope, a cloud-based data security provider. Founded in 2012, the company was able to quickly scale up and secure multiple…

Wood pellets are sold as a clean alternative to coal. But is the subsidised bioenergy boom accelerating the climate crisis?

A new book shows how well-meaning urban policies have backfired