In the late 1800s, a servant at Coldham Hall in Suffolk witnessed the apparition of two women dressed as nuns advancing towards him from portraits hanging in the hall. The incident inspired the young owner, Sir Thomas Gage, to commission a mezzotint of the apparition. The portraits, believed to be cursed, remained at Coldham Hall […]
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After more than a year of work, the team is thrilled to release the first version of Yarn 4.x. The major changes include a switch to Node.js 18+, the use of Corepack instead of yarnPath for new projects created with yarn init, inclusion of all official plugins by default, and a slightly altered syntax for […]
November marks the five-year anniversary of the addition of Mock Service Worker to a package.json file. This latest update, Version 2.0, is a significant milestone for MSW, with a refined public API that supports Fetch API primitives and numerous bug fixes. The author has partnered with Egghead to offer a comprehensive introduction to Mock Service […]
Protomaps is an open source map of the world that can be easily deployed as a single static file on cloud storage. It uses the PMTiles format, which is a specification for single-file tile pyramids that are organized in a compressed Hilbert ordering and can be queried via HTTP Range Requests. Protomaps can be delivered […]
This web content is about a Java implementation of Dilithium, which is a post-quantum digital signature scheme. It is based on the C reference implementation and has been wrapped into a JCE provider for easy use. Dilithium is part of the CRYSTALS suite of algorithms and is based on algebratic lattices. It is recommended as […]
In this article, the author aims to explain how to make a CPU using rocks and sand in a concise manner. The article emphasizes the importance of individual creativity and self-reliance in a world dominated by proprietary hardware and software. The process begins with obtaining silicon dioxide from rocks and purifying it to create pure […]
Fukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city, is known for its yatais, open-air food stalls that are a unique and integral part of the city’s food scene. These yatais operate only at night and are required to dismantle their stalls before morning. The limited space in the yatais encourages customers to sit closely together, fostering a friendly […]
In the bustling streets of Manhattan’s Union Square during World War I, the USS Recruit, a wooden landship constructed for the US Navy, stood proudly as a training tool for new recruits. Although it never sailed or saw combat, it successfully increased the number of men enlisting in the war effort. Mayor John P. Mitchel […]
This website is designed to provide back-of-the-envelope calculations on the performance of rockets like those described in science fiction literature. It was created to help science fiction authors achieve a level of scientific accuracy in their writing, particularly in the genre of Hard Science Fiction. The site also offers tools and resources for designing rocketships […]
In this article, the author explores the concept of running multiple OpenTelemetry Collectors within an architecture and highlights the benefits of using Apache Kafka in conjunction with the collectors. The OpenTelemetry Collector serves as a crucial component in an observability deployment, gathering, compressing, managing, and filtering data before sending it to the observability backend. However, […]