On May 30, 2026, I took the Python 3 Certified Engineer Basic Examination and passed with a score of 825. Actually, this was not my first attempt. I took the exam once on May 2, 2026, and failed with ...

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Every month the South Florida Water Management District challenges contracted hunters to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can.

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It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

You've heard that AI coding assistants will 10x your firmware productivity. They won't. If they did, embedded projects wouldn’t still be late. That number is marketing fluff, not measurement. Any ...

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

Kiro, Spec Kit, Tessl, and Zenflow avoid the chaos of vibe coding by taking a more systematic and structured approach. In February 2025, AI developer Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet (or whatever they ...