Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,895 posts.
Corporate branding and advertisements are ubiquitous in society today and almost impossible to avoid. What if we lived in a world where consumers were blind to this surplus of corporate branding? Brand Killer is a technology demonstration that envisions a future in which consumers can use augmented reality to opt out…
The background story to why I built yet another static website generator in Python.
People are so sensitive these days! People are just offended by every little thing! Millennials, amirite?!
This is a story about McGill education students that cannot calculate an average, and the professor who admitted he didn't care. Fina...
It’s been a very exciting year for ClojureScript. It’s clear that things have been accelerating and here is a personal selection of highlights:
We need languages and systems that are less powerful, not more powerful, and easy ways to create and use such languages.
Last night at OSCON I attended the lightning talks (here called "Ignite Talks"). Most of them were pretty good (I especially loved Emily Dunham's "First Impressions (the value of the 'noob')" talk), but the last talk of the night was titled "Why I don’t use the GPL" by Shane Curcuru, "VP of Brand Management at the…
(This essay is a companion piece to Gitlet, my implementation of Git in JavaScript.)
Even after the Snowden revelations, there remained at least one big mystery about what the NSA was doing and how. The NSA’s classified 2013 budget request mentioned, as a priority item, R…
Yesterday, in reaction to pointer events becoming a W3C recommendation, Tim Kadlec published an important piece about Apple’s huge influence on the mobile web.
Systems thinker who ended up in data. Mostly working out why organisations can't answer their own questions.
If you wanted to identify an inflection point in the recent development of CSS thinking, you’d probably pick Christopher Chedeau’s “CSS in JS” talk from NationJS in November, 2014. It was a watershed moment that set a bunch of different minds spiralling off in their own directions like particles after a high-energy…
The Grymoire - Tutorial on the SED stream editor.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
[M]ortgages were acknowledged to be the most mathematically complex securities in the marketplace. The complexity arose entirely out of the option the homeowner has to prepay his loan; it was poetic …
Earlier today, Motherboard posted a court document filed in a prosecution against a Silk Road 2.0 user, indicating that the user had been de-anonymized on the Tor network thanks to research conduct…
Matt Blodgett on topics occasionally germane to software development.
