Using an ammo box as portable 12V power supply

In a market dominated by the Amazon Kindle, it's easy to forget that Sony, not Amazon, made the first commercially-successful e-book reader.

How worried should we be, that we're wasting electrical energy for no benefit?

How a non-existent English village ended up on maps, and the implications this has for how we handle information.

The built-in cd command in the bash shell is not as smart as it could be; but it's a little fiddly to extend its functionality.

Java's strict adherence to Unicode standards for text representation ought to make life easier for developers, and usually it does. But not always.