David Cassel
The New Stack
Oakland, CA, United States
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Open Source Africa: How OSCA Empowers Developers
While 1.216 billion people live on the continent, Africa is often overlooked when it comes to open source development. Open Source Community Africa aims to change that. → Read More
NASA's Thirst for Open Source Software — and for Open Science
Naturally, NASA's need for high-quality scientific software has led it to open source, and now to an ambitious new program based on the larger principles of "open science." → Read More
Internet Archive's Virtual Retro Calculators Fuel Nostalgia
Calculators were a portal into the world of numbers for the last generation of techies who grew up before personal computers. Now, the Internet Archive has released a new collection of vintage calculator emulations that has stirred a lot of fond memories. → Read More
Online Community Fights Big Tech’s ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’
Competition-crushing chokepoints, Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin warn in a new book, happen when corporations amass "hourglass-shaped markets that have consumers at one end and suppliers at the other." → Read More
Can C++ Be Saved? Bjarne Stroustrup on Ensuring Memory Safety
C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup joins calls for changing the programming language itself to address security concerns, though other core contributors want to make more modest moves. → Read More
Wellspring of Creativity: Why Public Domain Matters
This year a flood of books, music and film created in 1927 enters the public domain, giving artists a chance to create and remix, and archivists the ability copy and store content for the ages. → Read More
Why Your Code Sucks: Common Excuses for Bad Programming
Dave Farley's exploration of seven common excuses that software developers make for doing a terrible job. → Read More
Java's James Gosling on Fame, Freedom, Failure Modes and Fun
James Gosling prefers using recursion over arrays, and other secrets of Java's founding father. → Read More
CES 2023: Robots, Astronauts, Schwarzenegger and Flying Cars
CES is BACK, Baby! → Read More
2022 in Review: AI, IT Armies, and Poems about Food
Besides technology playing a role in the world's geopolitical conflicts, there was also one unmistakable trend in 2022 that was both haunting and hilarious. → Read More
Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is about Trees
This year, 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of that fateful day in 1962 when a 24-year-old Donald Knuth started writing → Read More
Goat: A Proposed 'Extended Flavor' of the Go Programming Language
When compiled, Goat code will produce standard, compatible, and performant Go files, though developers would gain additional perks now backlogged in Go itself. → Read More
How to Support a Million Users on Your Website: A Success Story
StoryGraph’s welcome email promised to import data from a user's Goodreads, but the site never handled thousands of imports at a time, and the sudden backlog would take months to process. Here’s how Nadia Odunayon conquered the many challenges of scaling a website for large-scale success. → Read More
Guido van Rossum on Types, Speed and the Future of Python
Where will Python be in 100 years? It's a question MIT-based AI researcher Lex Fridman posed to Python creator Guido van Rossum towards the end of a wide-ranging, three-hour interview. → Read More
Special Gift Ideas for That Technical Someone in Your Life
It's an annual tradition at TNS — our own gift guide for that technical someone in your life. Perhaps Jurassic Park chess set or an alarm clock shaped like a PlayStation controller? → Read More
WebTV in 2022? Vintage Tech Enthusiast Shows How on YouTube
Thanks to a few dedicated hobbyists, soon you will be able to surf the internet on a cathode-ray tube television just like it was 1998. → Read More
New Book Identifies 26 Lines of Code that Changed the World
In her new book, Torie Bosch questions our belief in the objective and infallible nature of data and computing. → Read More
How Golang Evolves without Breaking Programs
Speaking at Gophercon 2022, the principal engineer for the Go programming language vowed that the Go will never not be backward compatible. → Read More
'Hey GitHub!' Tries a Voice Interface for Copilot
GitHub is testing the feasibility of providing a voice driven interface for its Copilot AI-driven code completion tool. → Read More
How Web Tech Got This Way and How It May Evolve in the Future
Steve Sanderson takes us on a tour of the history of web development, ending with some practical takeaways for the future of the web. → Read More