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I’m considered to be a server guy. I had access to some really awesome server machines. Still, when computers come up in discussions, we are almost exclusively talk about workstations. Even if servers are an important part of my life, that’s “just” work. I loved the SGI workstations I had access to during my…
It’s hard for me to believe these words but I pushed Sidekiq’s first commit on Jan 16th, 2012. Ten years ago. The public announcement. One month later. One quarter later. Some context for those new to this blog: Sidekiq is the most popular background job system for the Ruby programming language. Every application has…
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When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system:
It's a wise saying, because we game developers have so much fun making the underlying foundations, that we never get around to adding the actual gameplay.
Located smack bang in the middle of South Australia’s capital city, Adelaide Airport has an interesting runway approach lighting system – located in suburban streets and residential backyards! Some background Adelaide Airport is located approximately 6 kilometres from the Adelaide CBD. With the suburbs of Brooklyn…
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A short story of me trying out different USB-C hubs, taking them apart, and slowly descending into madness.
Last week Avi and I went outside to unbury our car after the storm, a task we assumed we could do ourselves but ultimately involved our whole neighborhood.
I’m not sure if they realize it yet, but Tailscale seems to work extremely well for polycules. Each user can have their own single-user Tailnet and explicitly share specific machines with other people. Both parties have to consent to sharing a device; either party can revoke this consent. The device owner can further…
It’s tempting to air your grievances at your exit interview. Don’t. There’s almost no upside to speaking up, and tremendous potential downside. Avoid exit interviews if you can. If you must go, be totally bland; say nothing negative.
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
A brief survey of where flow typing does and doesn't fit, and when it may play a role in other languages.
Outside my day job doing compiler research at Shopify, I lead the Cheshire Yeomanry , a squadron of British Army Reserve light cavalry . I spend about a hundred days a year of my spare-time in evenings, weekends, and holidays, training my Squadron.
Good morning! The other day some friends and I were reminiscing about an app idea we had years ago that would allow you to “blind cancel” on your friends. That is—flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which would only be revealed if the other person flagged it too. Basically, it was Tinder for bailing. This was…
Recently, I've been getting a lot of spam notifications from Google Drive. Here's a sample: The notifications come direct to my Android phone via the Drive app - they don't appear in my Gmail spam folder. There is no way to report the abuse. If I go to the list of notification in the Android apps, there's no option to…
In this article I present a step-by-step walkthrough of my photography workflow. I won't go through all the details of every piece of software I mention, they have their own manuals and documentation for that, I will highlight the operations I do. My main goals are: Full ownership of all …
Cython celebrates its 20th anniversary
In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Before I got into tech, I worked at a tutoring company in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., doing a mix of schoolwork-related tutoring and standardized test prep. From a business perspective, it made so much sense - you have kids taking standardized tests and parents who wanted their kids to do well…
Update 6/28/22: a reader reached out to me and let me know that Malwarebytes now detects and removes this malware as Adware.Choprex and OSX.Generic.Suspicious - so if you're reading this because you are affected, go download Malwarebytes and run a full scan. Thanks Yegor!
“Study hard what interests you the most.”
Marcel, E.G.G.S. and Nathaniel Tell All
I was responsible for a critical software project written by non-programmers a decade ago.
The IBM 1401 team at the Computer History Museum accumulates a lot of mystery components from donations and other sources. While going thr...
This is a blog version of the talk I gave at GopherCon Europe 2019 (Canary Islands Edition) , where I shared my thoughts on why Visual Programming Languages have failed and revealed for the first time my experiment on visualizing Go code.
There are some books which make you feel smarter just by having them on your shelf. This is one of them! I would consider it essential for anyone working with code - whether a wide-eyed newbie or grizzled veteran. How do human brains understand code? What neurological quirks do we all have? Which common mistakes can…
