Stories by thunderbong

Using short lived Postgres servers for testing

uv – pip killer or yet another package manager?

Steam is getting an official controller, but Valve isn't making it

Strong placebo response thwarts painkiller trials (2015)

The embryo is just a year younger than the mother who birthed her (2017)

Loving Cup

The Green Bubble Nightmare Is Over, Apple Messages Now Support RCS

Pitfall of WebSocket Disconnections Caused by Browser Power-Saving Mechanisms

A Tricky Floating-Point Calculation

ICQ will stop working from June 26 after 28 years

Verizon screwup caused 911 outage in 6 states–carrier agrees to $1M fine

DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)

Implementing Role Based Access Control in Node.js and Express App

Illuminate with Precision: The Importance of Shadowless Surgical Lights

A new Lumia smartphone might be on the way in 2024

New sort implementations merged in the Rust standard library – up to 2x faster

A black hole made from pure light is impossible, thanks to quantum physics

The radioactive legacy of Marie Curie

Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows