Bookmarks tagged “stories”
11 bookmarks tagged “stories”
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You | by Steve Yegge
God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But…
Quantum computing for the very curious
Presented in an experimental mnemonic medium that makes it almost effortless to remember what you read
How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012
Warning: This post is long. While working through this massive server upgrade/migration process, tears were shed, many cuss words were said, along with a general feeling of frustration, which ultimately culminated into extreme happiness once the migration was completed. The scale
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster - War Is Boring - Medium
The F-35 still has a long way to go before it will be ready for combat. That was the parting message of Michael Gilmore, the now-retired Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, in his last…
Lionhead: The inside story • Eurogamer.net
In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim. At a launch party an emotion…
The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete
Ben McGrath profiles Scarlett, the StarCraft competitor who is the most accomplished woman in the young history of e-sports.
PHP: a fractal of bad design - fuzzy notepad
(This article has been translated into Spanish (PDF, with some additions) by Jorge Amado Sor
