If you want to work in gamedev, start learning C++. AI will not replace you any time soon.

New Heroes portrait of @Google's @JeffDean for the @theNAEng & @theNASEM. Spending time with Jeff is a reminder that kindness and brilliance can live side by side. He is one of the great architects of the modern internet, the co-creator of MapReduce and Bigtable, and the driving

C purists claiming C++ is a regression often resort to creative(often petty) ways to bash the lang. They're missing the point; C++'s evolution brought essential abstractions while preserving C's power. Dismissing decades of thoughtful lang. design isn't the flex they think it is.

This is the greatest argument I’ve heard for why electric vehicles are better than gasoline-powered cars.

People who insist the lights stay on during the day, in full daylight, at the office - why? For the love of all that's good, why?

I love maps! Not just cloth maps, but any map from a great CRPG. They look amazing framed and hanging on the wall. Every time I pass by, I stop and remember all the wild places I've visited in my RPG adventures. But have you ever wondered about the history of maps in fiction and

Productivity game-changers: @raycast, Ghostty, @zeddotdev. Absolutely essential.

The day basketball became the number 1 sport in Greece! 🇬🇷 On this day in 1987, Hellas were crowned #EuroBasket Champs for the first time in history 🏆

apple just dropped the first-ever *haptic* movie trailer and it's WILD you can literally feel the F1 engines rumble 🤯 try it on iPhone:

If you're ever in Athens, I highly recommend the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology! https://t.co/D0v2diyDDD Early humanoid robots to pour water+wine, demonstrations of heat+steam+water weight to "magically" open 500 kg temple doors, armor, ... (cont)

If you are still using vim, and think neovim is not a big deal, you are wrong, just like I have been. It is a huge leap forward. Can't recommend it enough.

Best Player in the World

Since I wrote this answer to a student, I thought I would share more broadly.

Πόσο υπέροχο το γεγονός ότι στους αγώνες των Μπακς βλέπεις ΠΑΝΤΟΥ φανέλες της Εθνικής Ελλάδας 😍

I just wrote a blog post about how the modern AVX instruction vpternlogd shares a similar design with a 1985 Amiga blitter chip. Even Amiga programmers will be interested in a simple method to finally get that damn "minterm" value! https://t.co/313jFFVIaC #avx #amiga #demoscene

Well done brothers Serbians. Respect for the best national basketball team, who was robbed of its chance to fight for the first place.

It took three years to finish, but our follow-up to the 2006 "What Goes Around Comes Around" is finally out! Stonebraker and I examine the last 20 years in databases and discuss why relational databases + SQL will continue to remain on top. 📄PDF: https://t.co/ZwTWSxXLWb

This is the single greatest image of the earth ever taken. On Valentine's day in 1990, Voyager 1 turned around to capture the earth one last time from 3.7 billion miles.

Excited to share bug detection tool we've been working on w/ @maelver: https://t.co/X7mNy3ACrl It samples unmodified prod binaries with ~1% overhead, can be turned off completely. Detects data races, use-after-return, uninits. Can do more e.g. UAF/OOB in syscalls. Cool tech ...

Finished the last interlude today at 5:21. That is a wrap: Wind and Truth, Book five of the Stormlight Archive, is finished. Tomorrow morning, I'll hand it off to the proofreading and copyediting team. 491k words. The first file I have in my folder for this was dated March 2021,