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E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper
E-COM was a $40 million US Postal Service project to deliver email on paper. Why it failed, and why spammers were its only real customers.
Hillel Wayne
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Fine, I'll Play With Skiplists
Follow me on Bluesky! A Log-Structured Merge tree, or LSM, is a popular data structure for storage engines. It’s what is used by RocksDB, which is sort of...
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I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)
I will never stop dying on this hill
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Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog
I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming...
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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
It's a justifiable copout, but it's still a copout.
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When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)
There are very few universal rules in software engineering, but there are are a lot of near-universal principles. Things like "prefer composition to...
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A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads
Two years of nightmarish smiles and makeup before anyone laid hands on Mimic Systems' actual product.
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TLA from First Principles
Building an intuition for the mathematics behind the "TLA" in "TLA+"
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Formally Modeling Dreidel, the Sequel
2 model 2 dreidel