Like achievements in video games, the true meaning of some words can only be truly understood after years of experience.

Something important happened today.

With the recent NYT revelation that the US government was, in fact, sighting and researching UFOs on taxpayer money, UFO discourse has revived; yet, discussions in online fora have highlighted that evidence is scarce—it seems that most photographic evidence was from a relatively long time ago, at least long …

You’ve just arrived at the restaurant and are studying the menu. Your partner/friend/relative does the same but then asks: What are you having?

I cannot say for sure I never had this behavior myself, but I certainly cannot remember the last time I asked, other than to …

I wanted to know why my house was consuming electricity even when I was sleeping. So I used a smart socket with built-in meter to determine most of the electricity consumption in the house. Here are the details.

“It works…”

I just came across a blog post by Coraline Ada Ehmke on the potential drawbacks of seeking meritocracy in open source projects. Besides the main argument, a rhetorical question drew my attention:

why is it that we can proudly refuse to use software created by corporations whose often aggressive business …