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The next century of computing
80 Brief Predictions for the Future
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Experimenting a new syntax to write SVG
It's been a while since I introduced a new syntax to the css-doodle project to solve my own problems. While I'm not sure it would be useful elsewhere, I need to make some notes before I forget the details.
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Isolates, microVMs, and WebAssembly
I’ve been thinking about WebAssembly a lot lately.
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Katakana, Hiragana, and Unicode
How the 46 kana letters map onto 80 Unicode code points and how katakana and hiragana compare.
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Explained from scratch: private information retrieval and homomorphic encryption
This is a from-scratch explanation of private information retrieval built using homomorphic encryption. I try to assume only a general math / computer science background. To simplify things, my explanations may not always match academic definitions. You can check out this paper or code for more.
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Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates
On August 22nd, I got an email out of the blue from Apple that notified me that I had a new App Review message. It was for my app, WorldAnimals, a light-hearted game for guessing animal onomatopoeia sounds in different languages.Usually, you receive a message after you submit a new version to the...
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Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits
How I deploy my webapp using blue-green deployment and zero rocket-science
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Nvidia in the Valley
Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned.
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Open Source Bait and Switch
When OSS advocacy goes too far & corporate greed takes over, free software is used as a tool to destroy competition and hurt the developer community.
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Turns are better than radians
Switching away from radians makes code simpler, faster, and more precise.
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The Sad State of Debug Performance in C++
By now it should be (hopefully) widely known that the term “zero-cost abstractions” is a misnomer. Although, to be clear, it's more of an unfortunate name.
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McKinsey and Providence colluded to force poor patients into destitution
Providence is a health giant whose anchor is a network of Catholic hospitals. They colluded with McKinsey to steal from their poorest patients, by deceiving them about their eligibility for free care, saddling poor, sick people with crushing debts:
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Downturn career decisions
When I joined Yahoo in 2008, I received a small number of options. I don’t remember how many–it was very few–but I do know my strike price was roughly $16. I don’t remember that because my strike price was particularly lucrative, but rather because some of my coworkers would complain about their underwater strike…
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Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
Design lessons from an industrial supply company
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The Curious Design of Skateboard Trucks
An engineering deep-dive into skateboard truck design flaws
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Tradition is Smarter (2018)
The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If…
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Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner’s Perspective
Although British people love to complain about the state of their railways, my impressions about train travel in the UK were mostly positive.
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Analysis of Apple Watch running data
Analysis of Apple running measurements and statistics
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Self-control secrets of the Puritan masters
People today are fighting the temptations of a new economy.
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Not Mysticizing System Dynamics
A system dynamics model, properly considered, is just an analogy dressed up in a bit of formalism.
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GitHub Actions Pitfalls
During one of my assignments, I worked with GitHub Actions pretty much every day. I implemented workflows, created new actions, and helped people migrate their projects from jenkins to actions. As much as I like actions – and I like them a lot – there are some things that caught me off guard. I have collected some of…
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The MIPS ThinkPad, Kind Of
Pop quiz: what classic brand of laptop is this? I'll give you another hint. Bright-red TrackPoint and mouse button trim, classic keybo...
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When did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
So when did POP and IMAP become a “legacy protocol?”
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What does $0=$2 in awk do?
The trick to understanding awk in all its terse glory is to understand its defaults. Most solutions you see in the wild are a clever symphony of awk defaults stacked on top of each other. In this post, I break down one of the most popular one-liners which should hopefully make future awk-ing pretty straight forward.
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iPhones and action discoverability
Discoverability I spend a lot of my time thinking about UX and design, and I try to consciously think about it in the wild when I can. One of the things that always catches my eyes is the idea of discoverability, or how a user is able to discover that action X does some thing Y. A basic way to do so is to rely on…
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Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring
Which is good! Boring = success
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Whois: Fragile, Unparseable, Obsolete
A rather unstructured look at one of the older and infuriatingly trivial internet protocols: WHOIS
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Want cleaner code? Use the rule of six
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