It used to be hours of tedious work, combined with expensive proprietary licenses for single-server software desperately straining a CDN. Video streaming was a pain. A real pain. If it wasn't the client CPU speed and bad codecs, it was the ISP bandwidth, or the server capacity. If
Why? Because inside every man is a six year-old waiting to re-emerge. Sometimes you don't need a reason for a project. You simply do it because its awesome level breaks the charts, and/or for no damned reason at all. What if we could power this bad boy
blockchain
The Blockchain is many things. It's undoubtedly a work of genius to a problem most people don't realise even exists because we take it for granted so often. It's provoked an unstoppable wave of idealistic innovation, mostly from libertarian ideologues and tech oddballs, on
You can substitute the word "Coronavirus" for "zombie" and the context is almost the same. Fear of disease is right at the bottom of the human brain stem. Stay at home. Don't go outside. Stay safe. The Infected are roaming the streets. Someone tested
academia
With dozens of new entries, one of the most popular posts on the site - and the reason for a ban from a popular writing website bombarded with activist trolls - is now available on its own subdomain in a new format for easier browsing. You can access the recently-updated
drugs
Alexander Shulgin died in 2014, but his legacy lives on. Breaking Bad finished, and captivated viewers in a way most producers couldn't have imagined. In the period of 2009-2017, 803 new substances of abuse had been reported onto the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
political correctness
The notable increase of globalism in the 1990s, particularly the Internet age, has yielded a realignment of our politics in the Western world to a re-emergent paradigm of individualism vs. collectivism. Not since the Industrial Revolution and its Communist Manifesto has there been such a pronounced dynamic of the people
mathematics
It's a deceptively complex mathematical conundrum. You have 5, 10, or 20 destinations you want to batch together into a road trip. You need to find the fastest and/or most efficient - i.e. optimal - between them, geographically-speaking. Our brains work so fast, so effectively, we
maps
Most of us have only been able to see the planet since 1972. Amazing as it might seem, we had no idea what our floating rock really looked like until the infamous "Blue Marble" photo was taken by Apollo 17. There are some exceedingly strange places on this
education
It can often feel as if the world has gone mad or turned upside down. How did we get from the age of reason to barely knowing or caring what truth is anymore? The answer is complex. But mostly, half a century of academic imposters who couldn't work
php
Laravel has a lot of detractors, but there are two things of which any developer can be certain: a) whether you like it or not, PHP is undoubtedly the most widely deployed language of the web (read: employability), and b) it's unbeatable for rapid prototyping of ideas. What
political correctness
Ever wonder where that fashionable nonsense crazypeople preach all over the media and internet comes from? Where that bizarrely-Orwellian academic phrasing originated? Confused about internalized hegemonic patriarchy-centric-discourse over heterobinaries? Who came up with all this crap? A lot of imposters trying to pass themselves off as academics. With too much