Programming News and Articles

When you update the kernel, the old version remains on the disk. If you clean up, the reward is several hundred megabytes of free disk space.

The Linux /proc virtual filesystem offers a window into a running system – look inside for information on processes and kernel activity.

The best way to save money on software development is to get it right the first time. Pair programming, an agile technique, saves development costs by putting two coders to work on the same code. Visual Studio Code and tmate bring the promise of pair programming to remote workers.

Pass is a simple shell script that helps you manage and synchronize passwords using Git.

Can 10 heads in a row really occur in a coin toss? Or, can the lucky numbers in the lottery be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? We investigate the law of large numbers.

Maddog gives a brief history of the last (almost) half century of *x, plus a call for spreading the love.

If you're looking for a head start on solving the classic Knight's Tour chess challenge, try this homegrown Python script.

At a party with 23 guests, having two guests with the same birthday in more than 50 percent of cases may sound fairly unlikely to amateur mathematicians. Armed with statistical methods, party animal Mike Schilli sets out to prove this claim.