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iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review
The iPhone 8 Plus across western India — Portrait Lighting put to work on real faces, plus the quieter upgrades that matter to creative pros.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics
How many board configurations are there in the game of 2048? Let's estimate using combinatorics.
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What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps
The Apple Watch desperately needs standalone podcast playback, especially with the LTE-equipped Series 3, which was designed specifically for exercising without an iPhone.
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Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week
Every week, Macs running High Sierra will check the integrity of their EFI firmware, in a bid to detect tampering by malware.
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Things I've learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager
A couple of months ago I moved from a senior engineer position to being an engineering manager on a medium sized team. I've found this role change come with a steep learning curve: many things that mattered when I was an individual contributor - like writing good code and teaching
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Windows 3.1 All Over Again
Reactive programming and thread sharing. Javascript, Node.js, Go, Rails, Elixir and Erlang. Rewind the clocks to Windows 3.1 In 1992 with Windows 3.1 we had this thing non-preemptive multitasking, i.e. “Cooperative Multitasking”. Cooperation is a funny term, it should actually be “Programmer Controlled Multitasking”…
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Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust
Several months ago, I introduced Gnirehtet , a reverse tethering tool for Android I wrote in Java.
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Project Jigsaw: Complete
It’s been a long road, but at last the puzzle is complete: Today we delivered Project Jigsaw for general use, as part of JDK 9 .
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PEP 557 – Data Classes
This PEP describes an addition to the standard library called Data Classes. Although they use a very different mechanism, Data Classes can be thought of as “mutable namedtuples with defaults”. Because Data Classes use normal class definition syntax, y...
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Documenting your architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all
Instead of drawing UML diagrams, why not generate them from a network traffic capture of the running system?
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A Quick Introduction to Graphviz
An awesome tool for software documentation and visualizing graphs
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Why undefined behavior may call a never-called function
My twitter feed has recently been filled with discussions about the following program #include <cstdlib> typedef int (*Function)(); s...
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Org as a spreadsheet system: a short introduction
This short tutorial will go through the basics that you need to know if you want to use Org as a spreadsheet system.
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Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text
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Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
There have been several articles in the press recently about users flocking to DuckDuckGo in the wake of the recent NSA snooping revel...
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It’s time to kill the web app
Something is going on. The people are unhappy. The spectre of civil unrest stalks our programming communities.
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Parallel processing with Unix tools
Tools for multi-processing on unix
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Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen
Article removed for legal reasons, sorry. After receiving a Czech version of a cease and desist letter from a legal representative of A. F., I've removed the article. You'll find articles based on my story in “Recommended reading” below, go read them.
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Google Will Survive SESTA – Startups Might Not
There was a shocking moment in this week’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA). Prof. Eric Goldman had just pointed out that members of Congress should consider how the bill might affect hundreds of small Internet startups, not just giant companies...
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Changes to Google Scholar
If you thought Google Scholar had about twenty different screens, you'd be half right. We have just made it easier to find your way around ...
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APFS – A Backup Software Developer’s Perspective
A backup-software developer's deep dive into Apple's APFS file system — snapshots, cloning, space sharing, and what it all means for reliable Mac backups.
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Things cryptocurrency enthusiasts probably won't tell you
[Note: I neither own nor have any trading position on any cryptocurrency. I was not compensated by any party to write this. The views expressed below are solely my own and do not necessarily repr…
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Designing Websites for iPhone X
The section below about safe area insets was updated on Oct 31, 2017 to reflect changes in the iOS 11.2 beta.
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Introduction to WebRender
WebRender, is a 2D renderer for the web. It started as Servo’s graphics engine, and we are in the process of integrating it in Firefox. I have been meaning for a while to write about what Web…