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How to Fold a Julia Fractal
A tale of numbers that like to turn: a different look at complex numbers and the strange things they do.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,129 posts.
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Stop externalising your life
Software engineer and consultant with >15 years experience. Specializing in product engineering, design systems, and full-stack web development with React and TypeScript.
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What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
Last Sunday, my post “What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup in Thailand for 6 months” hit #1 on Hacker News and then stayed there for most of the day. He…
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Pixar's Chris Horne Sheds New Light on Monsters University
No, literally. Pixar's lighting/rendering systems were completely redone for their new film Monsters University. In my correspondence wi...
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Check you're wearing trousers first
It’s easy, fun, and a catastrophic mistake to over-intellectualise. Unfortunately it also pays pretty well.
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How A Pull Request Rocked My World
This is a story about Pull Request
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Stunned by Go
The original working title for this post was "Go is hostile to developers". This was named at a time of extreme frustration, and it didn't ...
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Metadata Equals Surveillance
Back in June, when the contents of Edward Snowden’s cache of NSA documents were just starting to be revealed and we learned about the NSA collecting phone metadata of every American, many people—including President Obama—discounted the seriousness of the NSA’s actions by saying that it’s just metadata. Lots and lots…
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WebKit for Developers
Feb 2015: A lot’s happened since I wrote this post two years ago. Chrome forked WebKit and started Blink, Opera adopted Chromium, and node-webkit became nw.js. This post describes a complexity of defining WebKit that doesn’t exist much anymore; with Chrome’s departure the WebKit world is more simple and clear.
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Problems with the TSA
Coverage: Hacker News , Slashdot , BoingBoing , RT America News , Tumblr , RightThisMinute , RTM update , PapersPlease 2014 & 2015
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Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Making a Physical Product
Jon Paul Wheatley makes products, software, and balls.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Hoodie
It is June 2, 2010 and Mark Zuckerberg is sweating. He's wearing his hoodie—he's always wearing his hoodie—and he's on stage and either the lights or the questions are too hot. His hosts are asking him about the privacy overreaches of Facebook. He's uncomfortable. He's mopping his brow. He apologize
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Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
I probably wrote this page around 2000. At least, it must have been some point before Usenet was a complete ruin.
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How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard
My Sidekiq project isn’t just about building the best background processing framework for Ruby, it’s also a venue for me to experiment with ways to make open source software financially sustainable for the developers who work on it hundreds of hours each year (e.g. me). Let’s review.
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How To Make a Quick Buck
In 1992 I had bought a license to a little known real time micro kernel based operating system called QnX.
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LLVM Intermediate Representation is better than assembly
The crucial part is IR. It's a common language that sits between the high-level program and the low-level backend . IR is used to express high level concepts and is specific enough that any backend can produce a fast machine code.
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Why SICP Matters
In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important innovations developed there. They asked me to explain the importance of SICP, and this is what I sent them:
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Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.