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Simon Burkhardt explains the concept and functionality of FPGAs, a unique form of high-performance chip for niche applications. Few people understand FPGAs, much less know how they work or what their internal architecture looks like. Inspired by Ben Eaters’ 8-bit CPU on a breadboard, Burkhardt built his own simple FPGA in hardware. He goes into […]
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The author delves into the origins of celebrating World Wide Web Day on August 1st by exploring Tim Berner-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb application code for NeXT. The author copies the code to a GitHub repository to browse it more easily using syntax highlighting. They go on to explain how to back-date Git commits by setting environment […]
The author reminisces about their time working with the best and worst codebase they ever encountered in their career. They recall the challenges and quirky solutions within the system, such as creating a table with only one column to generate IDs and using a manual calendar table to restrict logins. The database was a chaotic […]
In the medieval period, there was another ‘New England’ located far to the east of the modern-day England, in the area of the Crimean peninsula. This colony was established by Anglo-Saxon exiles after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and seemed to have survived until at least the thirteenth century. These exiles entered the Varangian Guard, […]
Redox has been selected for an NGI Zero grant, focusing on implementing POSIX signal handling and process management in userspace. This will allow for significant improvements to the Redox kernel performance. An updated scheme packet format and new syscalls have boosted RedoxFS copy performance by 63%. The kernel is undergoing changes to handle SYS_PREAD2 and […]
A recent study by Japanese and Belgian astronomers has solved a historical mystery about solar cycles by re-examining sunspot drawings made by Johannes Kepler in the 17th century. The debate about who first observed sunspots dates back to ancient Chinese astronomers in 364 BCE, and mistaken interpretations continued for centuries. Kepler, Thomas Harriot, and Galileo […]
In Australia, a groundbreaking programme will offer treatment to babies with peanut allergies in an effort to build up immunity to the potentially life-threatening condition. Eligible infants will receive gradually increasing doses of peanut powder over a period of at least two years under supervision from select paediatric hospitals. Australia, known as the “allergy capital […]
DSCv3 is the latest version of Microsoft’s Desired State Configuration platform, designed to manage software components declaratively and idempotently. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows without relying on PowerShell, allowing you to write resources in various languages. While DSCv3 is a major change from PowerShell DSC, it can still invoke PowerShell DSC Resources. To […]
This GitHub repository is a mirror of Tim Berners-Lee’s original WorldWideWeb application for NeXT from 1991. The prototype Hypertext browser/editor allowed direct access to Hypertext servers, files, and news. The Implementation/Features.html file offers a historic changelog. The commit dates have been backdated to the last-modified day for each file, using a method detailed in the […]
Run the ArchiveTeam Warrior on your computer to assist with archiving efforts. The virtual appliance downloads and uploads sites to the archive easily and safely – it runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux without damaging your computer. Simply download the file, import it to VirtualBox, and start the machine to begin. Choose a username […]