As well as raw bus drivers there are also many direct device drivers which hide the details of how the devices are interfaced. Many of these conform to either the IIO or Hwmon approach. Here the focus is on Hwmon, the oldest of the approaches.

If you are at all interested in the history of the computer you can't help but debate the question of who actually invented the first machine? According to a 1973 court ruling it was John Atanasoff, inventor of the ABC.

Google is providing financial support to the Rust for Linux project which aims to increase Linux security by writing parts of the Linux kernel in Rust. This seems to be a worthwhile attempt to bolster the security of the internet and every device that uses it.

A custom pre-aggregation storage layer for Cube.js has been released, and the developers say this means Cube.js is now fully ready for use for operational analytics for any SQL-compliant database, data warehouse, or query engine.

The 7th edition of the Kotlin Heroes Contest, an online format hackathon, takes place on June 29th. To help you get up to speed, try out the Practice Round which is open from June 22nd.

GitHub Desktop has been updated and now has expanded support for drag and drop to allow you to squash and reorder commits in your history, amend previous commits, and start new branches from earlier commits.

Postgres Pro Enterprise has been updated and open sourced. The new release of the private fork of PostgreSQL is based on PostgreSQL 13.3.

Another month, another release of VS Code by Microsoft. This month's tweaks have largely been previewed in earlier releases, but make it into the official additions for this release. The list includes terminal tabs, Workspace Trust, and remote repositories.

Linux turns 30 this summer and, as part of the celebrations, the Linux Foundation asked the open source community "How has Linux Impacted your Life?" Authors of 30 personal stories have each been able to name a penguin. This led us to ask, Why is the Linux mascot a penguin?

Coding Fantasy is a new platform for learning CSS, HTML and JavaScript by playing coding games. It already offers a free fun educational game for learning how to use the CSS Flex Box mode and here we look at what it entails.

It was in 1931 that Kurt Godel, then aged just 25, published his first incompleteness theorem. On one level it seems so long ago and yet at another so recent. We have only just begun to think about the nature and limits of computation and logic, but Godel was one of the first.

In an effort to expand the range of apps on offer in its Appstore, Amazon has announced the Amazon Appstore Small Business Accelerator Program which is offering not only a better revenue share, but also AWS credits.

Google has open sourced a fully homomorpthic encryption (FHE) transpiler. FHE provides a way to carry out computations on encrypted data without it needing to be decrypted.