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Turing awardees republished key methods and ideas without credit
Whose Creators They Failed to Credit
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Programs are games, programming is a game
(This post is now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) In 11th grade, I wrote my first program, Dingo Hopper. In the game, the player controls a png of a din...
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Should you add screenshots to documentation?
Screenshots in documentation can be a contentious topic — some people really like them and think they add a lot of value, while others dislike them due to the maintenance burden and accessibility issues. So what should you do?
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Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
Our third film is from 1995, directed by Iain Softley. Hackers is about a group of teenage computer hackers, of the ethical / playful type who are driven by curiosity and cause no harm — well, not …
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Remembering things that haven't happened yet
How will I know what I need to hear in a future I can't anticipate? Who will I be, and what will she want?
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The Long Shadow of Checks
A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.
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Whisper: Nvidia RTX 4090 vs. M1 Pro with MLX
How fast is my Whisper Benchmark with the MLX Framework from Apple? Nvidia 4090 / M1 Pro / M2 Ultra / M3
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It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult
Reflecting on investing in design systems
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Reclaiming the web with a personal reader
There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.
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LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
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Making OKRs more playful using hill charts
OKRs for Managers and C-Level? Great! But have you ever asked your teams? In this post I am sharing how I make OKRs less dry and more enjoyable for the teams I manage.
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AI’s big rift is like a religious schism
The cult-like battles between e/acc and doomers
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Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture
Part 1 of the story of Motorola's 8-bit microprocessor design
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Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous
Then Life Continued
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Dungeons and Directories, an exploration game in your file explorer
Dungeons and Directories is a short text adventure game that you play in your file browser.
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Walk and Talk
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Forget spaceships; I just want my music
A couple weeks ago, as my kids settled into the car, I asked like I always do, "what songs do you want me to play?" They have a range of favored earworms, from Baby Shark to Babaloo, and usually the songs are tolerable, at least. But a few albums, like Bluey's soundtrack, transcend the children's genre. They're…
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Htmx Is a Erlang
htmx, a disciple of hypermedia , available only in hardcover do not look for alternatives , has been manifesting itself into existence recently ( recently: after 10 years of work 1 ) and has finally reached critical mass 2 .
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The new local data stack: Integrating Dagster, dbt and DuckDB
Lean and efficient MDS experience: Delivers better software engineering practices to the data ecosystem with the new local MDS stack comprised of Dagster, dbt and DuckDB which offers better developer productivity by enhancing testability of the E2E pipeline.
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Building a Web Game in C
Christmas is coming up. When I used to work at a bank the entire month of December and a bit of January we were placed under “Change Freeze”. We weren’t allowed to deploy updates to our applications during this period. The thinking was: A lot of people are away over Christmas Application changes can lead to crashes…
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The best WebAssembly runtime may be no runtime
When we think “a fast AOT WebAssembly compiler and runtime”, we typically think about V8, Wasmer, WasmEdge or Wasmtime.
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Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo
Undo and redo have been a staple operation of text editors probably since the first typo was ever made, yet there has not been a lot of innovation around refining the idea of what undo and redo could be. Let’s explore what I mean…
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Modern iOS Navigation Patterns
An unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Learn how to structure iPhone apps with drill-downs, modals, pyramids, sequences, and more.
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Magical Fibonacci Formulae
The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence , without loops, recursion or floating point arithmetic:
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Building a bare-metal bootable game for Raspberry Pi in C#
How I built a graphical bootable "game" for the Raspberry Pi (or any other modern computer) in C#.