Bit Rot: How Hard Drives and SSDs Die Over Time
Computer storage is both a blessing and a curse. We can store terabytes of photos, documents, and more at home. But that data is more precarious...
Dead Set Is the Most Topical TV Miniseries to Binge Right Now
Right now in Germany, the cast of the hit show Big Brother is completely oblivious to the fact that there’s a global pandemic. Twelve years ago, that...
Noah Van Sciver Bids Farewell to Fante Bukowski
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver has created three graphic novels about Fante Bukowski, a fictional writer whose comical delusions of literary greatness are matched only by his...
JEP 375: Pattern Matching for instanceof (Second Preview)
For project Amber, work is being done on pattern matching for Java, among other things. For the instanceof operator, pattern matching in Java 14 will soon...
Progressive React Apps
A Progressive Web App with React isn’t finished just by integrating a Service Worker. That task is completed automatically for you on the initialization of the...
Top tips for transitioning to continuous testing
Continuous Integration is quickly establishing itself as a best practice for software development. Several factors such as revision control, build automation, and automated testing provide key...
Java – the fourteenth
In recent years, Oracle has made some groundbreaking decisions. They include the new semi-annual release model with preview features and shorter release and feedback cycles for...
Pandemic Journal
Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from A.E. Stallings in Athens, Simon Callow in London, Mark Gevisser in Cape Town, Sarah Manguso in Los Angeles, Ruth Margalit...
What ‘Distributive Justice’ Means for Doctors Treating Covid-19
The Italian guidelines’ specific recommendations include common-sense best practices such as seeking the ethical and practical opinion of other providers or senior staff when making a...
Bigger Brother
In the 1970s, when Shoshana Zuboff was a graduate student in Harvard’s psychology department, she met the behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner. Skinner, who had perhaps the largest...
