Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now. Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the ...

The big picture: On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, certain Unix-based computer systems will encounter a critical timekeeping failure. Due to a software flaw known as the "Y2K38 bug," 32-bit ...

YouTube is an easy program to use. But there are a bunch of shortcuts and tricks that you still need to learn if you want more than just basic proficiency. One trick I’ve learned recently is how to ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

We are a weekly podcast and newsletter made to deliver quick and relevant JavaScript updates in just under 4 minutes. byThis Week in JavaScript@thisweekinjavascript byThis Week in ...

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix version 2 release from 1972. The backstory is incredible. Now, however, forensic code researcher Yufeng ...

There can’t possibly be a more timely film in the Berlin Film Festival lineup this year than Kateryna Gornostai’s Timestamp, an extraordinary deep-cover documentary about the effects of war in ...

Some Linux commands can make your time on the command line easier and more productive. This post covers some commands that can come in very handy. 1. Using the tldr command to simplify man pages The ...

A republication of a series of posts by Shinobi from January 2020, predicting the course of Bitcoin through the 2020s. It’s a new year, and with that new year come all the normal social media circle ...