Practices, methodologies, lifecycle
A decade-old hobbyist site cataloging juggling patterns with siteswap notation and JugglingLab animations remains on indefinite hiatus since June 2015. The juggling community has largely shifted to video documentation platforms and modern sharing tools, though the static archive continues hosting its collection of trick tutorials and mathematical pattern encoding.
A community wiki preserves Commodore's 1990 AT&T Unix port for Amiga hardware - a commercial failure that shipped around 1,000 beta units before Commodore's 1994 collapse. The project highlights early challenges porting Unix to consumer hardware, now emulatable via WinUAE since 2013.
Europe's largest open-source conference shifted focus from vendor convenience to community-controlled infrastructure. The 25-year-old event showcased 1,079 sessions across 71 tracks, with notable emphasis on FreeBSD, minimal BSD systems, and decentralized networking—signaling enterprise interest in sovereign tech stacks.
A minimal 128-bit unsigned integer implementation using carry/borrow/multiply intrinsics generates assembly identical to compiler builtins. For CTOs facing precision requirements in geometry, finance, or crypto workloads, fixed-width types offer predictable performance without abstraction overhead—the foundation scales cleanly to 256 or 512 bits.
A decade-old hobbyist site cataloging juggling patterns with siteswap notation and JugglingLab animations remains on indefinite hiatus since June 2015. The juggling community has largely shifted to video documentation platforms and modern sharing tools, though the static archive continues hosting its collection of trick tutorials and mathematical pattern encoding.
A community wiki preserves Commodore's 1990 AT&T Unix port for Amiga hardware - a commercial failure that shipped around 1,000 beta units before Commodore's 1994 collapse. The project highlights early challenges porting Unix to consumer hardware, now emulatable via WinUAE since 2013.
Europe's largest open-source conference shifted focus from vendor convenience to community-controlled infrastructure. The 25-year-old event showcased 1,079 sessions across 71 tracks, with notable emphasis on FreeBSD, minimal BSD systems, and decentralized networking—signaling enterprise interest in sovereign tech stacks.
A minimal 128-bit unsigned integer implementation using carry/borrow/multiply intrinsics generates assembly identical to compiler builtins. For CTOs facing precision requirements in geometry, finance, or crypto workloads, fixed-width types offer predictable performance without abstraction overhead—the foundation scales cleanly to 256 or 512 bits.
A 2018 script shows how rsync's --link-dest option creates space-efficient snapshots for Linux servers, using hardlinks instead of full copies. Enterprise teams get browseable backups without vendor dependency, but manual restore testing remains critical.
ZDNET's list of essential free Windows apps hits familiar territory: Brave, VLC, ShareX, WPS Office, Todoist. The real question for enterprise teams isn't which apps, but how you deploy them - manual installs don't scale past your first machine.
Adventure Game Studio, the open-source point-and-click game engine launched in 1997, released patch 3.6.2-P6 in early 2026. The Windows IDE exports to Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android without subscriptions—a model that's kept thousands of indie games shipping for nearly three decades while commercial alternatives added paywalls.
Gul Agha's MIT doctoral work formalized the Actor model for concurrent computation—a framework now underpinning Akka, Erlang/OTP, and modern microservices. Forty years on, CTOs are rediscovering its answers to deadlock, backpressure, and multi-core scalability challenges.
Apple's official support documentation incorrectly identifies the DFU port on 16-inch MacBook Pro M4 models, causing macOS external disk updates to fail silently. The correct port is on the right side, not left as documented—a discovery that matters for IT teams managing fleet deployments.
An accounting firm still running Windows 98 in 2026 needed their data extracted from DOS-era RPG software—locked behind a hardware dongle from a company that vanished decades ago. The copy protection turned out to be simpler than expected, but the real story is how many enterprises remain trapped by vendor lock-in from the 1980s.
Most users leave equalizer settings untouched, missing significant audio improvements. But enterprise audio vendors and consumer forums show EQ adjustments of just 3-6 dB can fix muddy bass, harsh highs, and tinny mids - if you know which frequencies to target.
A ZDNET staffer ditched their gas snow blower for DeWalt's 60V battery model after a no-start situation. The switch worked for light snow, but battery-powered single-stage machines have clear limits that enterprise facilities teams should understand before fleet purchases.