When I was getting ready to see Frozen II, a friend of mine had only one thing to say: “Just wait until you get to Kristoff’s song.” The Disney sequel largely sticks close to the tone of the original film, with one singing reindeer-sized exception. The...

A new study this week highlights a unique, long-spanning crisis among Americans. For decades, it suggests, the U.S. life expectancy has lagged behind similar countries. And for close to a decade, young to middle aged Americans have actually been dying more th…

One of Rust’s biggest selling points is how well it can interoperate with C. It’s able to call into C libraries and produce APIs that C can call into with very little fuss. However, when dealing with sufficiently complex APIs, mismatches between... | Sean Gri…

We all know that open source software has changed the fundamental nature of the software industry and that Google generously adds fuel to this culture of openness and community through Google Summer of Code. What few people realize is that there is another ma…

This blog post is a slightly edited version of the live transcript of the talk I gave at RustFest 2019 in Barcelona on November 10th, 2019. As it’s a transcript some parts of it are a bit repetitive or badly worded, but I hope the message...

Thinking back to the 2000s, I remember the decade of the 9/11 attacks, talk of peak oil, a blundering war in Iraq, and the massive financial crash of 2008. In 2010, the U.S. economy was still working its way back to health. Technology companies that are...

A group of government advisors have recommended that a fat-fighting, fish oil drug be used to reduce risk of heart problems including heart attack. If approved, Vascepa would be the first drug of its kind to be used to improve heat health.