Coding Relic

Continuing investigation into JIT compilation for virtual machines , today we will delve into some of the plumbing. libjit is a library for...

You might think this is a painting of an espresso machine, but that is incorrect. Its actually an early Victorian prototype of the Arduino ,...

When Apple announced its A4 ARM CPU, I speculated about what would be in it. This speculation turned out to be completely wrong, but it wa...

Monday morning posts on this site are normally jokes, funny observations, and amusing bits of fluff. Today I have to tip my hat to something...

Image courtesy of Apple When Gizmodo acquired an iPhone 4 prototype , I recall a mention that Apple execs were especially annoyed because...

Virtual Machine architectures are a fascinating topic, and one that I plan to occasionally explore in this space. Not virtual machines in t...

Yesterday Louis Gray pieced together vague snippets of information from tweets made by the founders and investors of Foursquare and Brizzl...

Voyager 2 is currently traversing the heliosphere , the shockwave where the solar wind and particles of the interstellar medium meet. Decad...

Toxoplasmosis has long been known to modify the behavior of its host mice, influencing them in ways which make it more likely they will be...

After many years of working in plain C, I'm back to writing C++. I feel like an unfrozen caveman, confused by the flashing lights of the...

I love how the stackoverflow.com maintenance page show a binary dump of a Windows process where the stack overflow error is defined. Clever...

At the time of this writing 455 planets outside of Earth's own solar system have been discovered. Nearly all are gas giants like Jupiter...

Well, sure. If were it an expected error you would have done something more useful.

Its amazing that hard drives work at all. A tiny little drive head flies just above a metallic tundra, manipulating miniscule dots of magnet...

AT&T recently announced changes to their data plans, eliminating the unlimited data plans and replacing them with tiered plans offering...