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What’s New in Swift 5.2
Key path expressions as functions, callAsFunction, and more
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,290 posts.
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Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care
There is now a number, that you can't see, that follows you wherever you go.
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Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming
I've started live streaming and publishing videos on my YouTube Channel again recently and it made me realize just how much work I've put into getting a good hardware setup—not just for the stre
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Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been obsessed with improving my productivity. During this time, I’ve continuously been monitoring the amount of work I’ve been getting done and have been experimenting with changes to make myself more productive. After only two months, I can now get significantly more work done than I did…
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The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer
In my research career I’ve discovered many things, including the secret of academic success (too late to help my own career). I’m going to share the secret with you.
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How might the coronavirus change our world?
The doors 2019-nCoV will open, and the doors it will close.
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Wacom tablets track every app you open
I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one.
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Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam
I was recently the (unsuccessful) target of a very well-crafted phishing scam. As part of a housing search a few weeks ago, I was trawling craigslist and zillow for rental opportunities in the SF bay area. I reached out to a beautiful looking rental place to inquire about a tour. Despite my experience as a security…
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Pathfinding Demystified (2014)
Pathfinding is one of these topics that usualy baffles game developers. The A* algorithm in particular is poorly understood, and the general belief seems to be that it’s arcane magic.
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Tech salaries are risk premiums
This blog post was supposed to come out two years ago in response to, I think, this article. Better late than never? After literally years of people
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Microsoft's Three Browsers
It’s an interesting time. Microsoft now maintains three different web browsers: Internet Explorer 11Microsoft Edge Legacy (Spartan, v18 and below)Chromium-based Microsoft Edge (v79+) If you&#…
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Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (2016)
Regular readers of this blog will have seen me reference “Arcade Raids” in previous articles. This might create images in your head of hooded gangs of arcade collectors breaking into warehouses in …
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You’re better off using Exceptions
Exception handling is an error management paradigm that has often been met with criticism. Such criticisms typically revolve around scoping considerations, exceptions-as-control-flow abuse or even …
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IBM's Lost Decade
TL;DR: Down and to the right I wasn’t going to do this post until I learned IBM PR is out browbeating reporters (one of the rare activities where the company is still world class) for being “too ha…
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Allocator Designs
This post explains how to implement heap allocators from scratch. It presents and discusses different allocator designs, including bump allocation, li…
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Null Values in SQL Queries
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Taking back Mondays and Tuesdays (2019)
The creative studio of NYC-based designer and creative director, Able Parris
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Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)
DSLs, or domain specific languages, are programming languages that are designed to implement a set of features specific to a particular problem or field. An example could be Make , the build tool, which is a specially designed language for combining ...
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How to decrypt WhatsApp end-to-end media files
At the center of the "Saudis hacked Bezos" story is a mysterious video file investigators couldn't decrypt, sent by Saudi Crown Prince MBS t...
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Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development
Find out how I use a Linux Desktop PC for Cloud Native Development and for business work. I'll cover everything from parts & peripherals to CLIs and SaaS.
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Things I Believe About Software Engineering
Inspired by Jan Stette's "Things I Believe" post, I decided to write down some of the more contentious beliefs I have about software engineering. I've selected some of my more extreme opinions here, so I expect reasonable people to disagree with me. That's ok.
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New in PHP 8
PHP 8.0 brings features like attributes, union types, and the JIT compiler. It has some important breaking changes, and improved performance.
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