Web apps are all the rage because of accessibility. However, there are usually problems with trying to modify some existing software to be a web app: specifically user interface and performance. In order for a web application to perform well, it must be a...

  Written in the productivity language Julia, the Celeste project—which aims to catalogue all of the telescope data for the stars and galaxies in in t... (more…)

In 1998, the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico began imaging every visible object from over 35% of the sky in a project known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The images include around 500 million stars and galaxies. Light from the most distant of th... (more…)

This week I was working on a Kubernetes networking problem. Basically our container network backend was reporting that it couldn’t delete routes, and we didn’t know why. (more…)

Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda has warned that efforts are underway to sabotage the Parliamentary process relating to the EU's plans for mandatory piracy filtering. The Pirate Party member says there's now just over a week to protest against... (more…)