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This is happening right now, on a massive scale in Australia's NEM (National Electricity Market). Our market operator has recently moved to five minute pricing and settlement windo…

I've only read the abstract, but hasn't this been achievable for at-least the last twenty years with dependency injection? I've seen time and time again developers conflate microse…

The concern is not really around disk but memory, opening just a few Electron app instances is enough to bring a machine with 8GB of RAM to its knees. I’m almost convinced that thi…

From lived experience, creating a cross-platform application via abstracting the relevant native interfaces versus targeting web with all the _fun_ that entails are effectively equ…

I remember reading this site so much when I was eight years old. It's been around for at least sixteen years. Glad to see its still up, looks exactly the same too.

There was a similar installation at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne in 2015. Not sure if it’s still there, at least when I was there last it emailed your vide…

Not sure how different things are in other parts of the world, but here in Australia all of our debit cards are on the regular Visa/Mastercard networks; you can use them wherever y…

This is pretty cool! It immediately reminded me of Gary Bernhardt's 2014 talk, 'The Birth and Death of Javascript'[1]. Truly life imitating art. [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.…

I actually find the metaphor quite useful–as a developer I can develop a GUI application utilizing a common menu metaphor but _not_ always have a window open; essentially an applic…

Before the inevitable comments regarding Apple's moves with macOS and how the hacker 'tide' is supposedly turning back against Apple, I think I'll chime in with my two cents. I swi…

Cheers :) Yeah, I was one of those kids that spent most of their free time programming or otherwise tinkering with computers. I started with simple systems scripting languages befo…

I must say, out of all the things to happen on a Thursday night I wouldn't have expected to read an article where someone referenced my own code that I wrote when I was 15. (5 year…