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Ask vs. Guess Culture
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,824 posts.
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Why your blog still needs RSS
Back in the early days of blogging, the tech press bashed RSS out of existence as it was supposedly too complex for ordinary users. To th...
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Structuring Your Infrastructure as Code
If you’re thinking of migrating to another infrastructure as code tool (and why would you, everything is great in the IaC world now, right?!) you might find yourself asking yourself
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Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well
Extensible programs like Obsidian have achieved a Holy Grail of software architecture, after decades of failed attempts.
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Short session expiration does not help security
When logged into a web application, the session does not remain valid forever. Typically, the session expires after a fixed time after login, or after the user has been idle for some time. How long should these times be?
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WTF is going on with R7RS Large?
The reaction to John Cowan’s resignation as chair of the R 7 RS Large working group has been somewhat wider than I think anyone expected, making it onto general interest programming forums. Scheme may be a small island, but when it has an earthquake, it makes waves through the whole archipelago of programming…
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Career advice for young system programmers
For some of us, the backend vs frontend discussion just doesn’t cut it. What do do, then?
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Railway Oriented Programming
Slides and videos explaining a functional approach to error handling
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TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers
There are two main historical trends when choosing an implementation language for something compiler-shaped.
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FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization
The Bhyve FreeBSD hypervisor (called/spelled ‘beehive’ usually) was created almost 10 years ago. Right now it offers speed and features that other similar solutions provide – such…
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How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust.
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YOLO-Driven Development Manifesto
YOLO-driven development - not for the faint of heart
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Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the <tr>'s and <td>'s
Email clients have quirks that force you to use <table> elements, inline styles, and follow other bad practices that make development complicated.
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Railway Safety Posters (2022)
These are posters warning of potential hazards on the railway. They were used for public relation relations at various stations to alert passengers and the gene
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Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
So, a while ago I built a gaming PC with the following specification: Case Dan A4 v4.1 Motherboard Z690I Strix Gaming Pro...
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Fusion Foolery
Great. The fusion hype is bad enough already. Now its resurgence is going to interrupt the series of posts I’m in the middle of publishing in order for this post to be “timely.”
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Managing difficult software engineers
Effectively managing difficult employees in a software engineering context hinges on three core principles: fostering trust by empowering autonomy, promoting growth through challenges and constructive feedback, and ensuring a comfortable work environment with streamlined processes and minimal disruptions.
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DIY Espresso (2020)
The pièce de résistance. EDIT: Whoa looks like Hackaday found this post ! If anyone's interested in learning more about this, I posted this...
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NP-hard does not mean hard (2017)
When NP-hardness pops up on the internet, say because some silly blogger wants to write about video games, it’s often tempting to conclude that the problem being proved NP-hard is actually very hard! “Scientists proved Super Mario is NP-hard? I always knew there was a reason I wasn’t very good at it!” Sorry, these two…
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Open Challenges in LLM Research
[LinkedIn discussion, Twitter thread]
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Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was...
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The Amazon Prime Day 2023 AWS Bill
How much would AWS cost for Amazon Prime Day? Here's Corey Quinn's best guess at the company's AWS bill for the two-day shopping event.
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Is this a good book for me, now?
I used to believe that every book has an objective value. And I used to believe that this value is fixed and universal.
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Why Tailwind CSS Won
Tailwind CSS is the new ubiquitous frontend framework. It replaces a generation of sites built with Twitter Bootstrap. However, Tailwind CSS is not a UI framework itself but has become synonymous to some degree with t...