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Explore modern project architecture, theming, responsive layouts, and component design. Learn to improve code organization, dig into layout techniques, and review real-world, context-aware components that use cutting-edge CSS techniques.
I recently pondered how I'd answer [Peter Thiel's](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1478492-what-important-truth-do-very-few-people-agree-with-you) interview question if my answer had to relate to software:
My view on the state of social media in late 2023
After many years coding in different teams — big and small — I think I can now finally explain to myself why and when do we need, or not…
I’ve been programming for a long time. When I say long time, I mean decades, with an S. Hopefully that’s long enough. In that time my experience has primarily been programming for contemporary platforms, e.g. Linux, Windows, macOS on desktop-class or server-class CPU architectures. Recently, I embarked on building a…
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
The name is all but dead, nerfed by the company who invented it. Here’s why Netlify was ahead of its time and where everything went wrong.
A model that helps people design effective teams for software development.
It might seem like a click baity title but it’s not. Let me explain.
I've been operating Pushover 's public-facing API for over a decade now and I thought I'd pass on some advice for those creating a new API.
I opened GopherCon Australia in early November with the talk “Go Testing By Example”. Being the first talk, there were some A/V issues, so I re-recorded it at home and have posted it here:
Let's start with an example. In Advent of Code 2022 day 1 we get groups of numbers as input like: 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 ...
John Maynard Keynes? Paul Samuelson? Winston Churchill? Joan Robinson? Apocryphal?
a Review of my time in therapy
An exploration into the internet's most simple domain names
Everything seems to be USB-C powered nowadays - I need more power on my workbench!
Augmenting GPT-3 with tools is a popular technique right now. But is GPT-3 really using them?
The Guardian is one of my favorite news sources. I’m a subscriber (support news organizations!) and I read it daily. But it is not immune to errors, as this headline shows:68 °F above average is a …
Here is another monthly update on lumber prices. SPECIAL NOTE: The CME group discontinued the Random Length Lumber Futures contract on May...
“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.” – Charlie Munger, American billionaire investor.
Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
These words cause problems as table or column name
How to use a CTE instead of complicated CASE expressions
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
Diffusion models are trained to reverse a stochastic process through score matching. However, a lot of diffusion models rely on a small but critical implementation detail called thresholding. Thresholding projects the sampling process to the data support after each discretized diffusion step, stabilizing generation at…
The course was very much an experiment, an attempt to combine literary study with computing. The 17 surviving students were largely sophomores. About two thirds of them were hard-core humanities majors; the rest were potential or actual CS majors or other STEM concentrators. The class met once a week for three hours…
It’s April Cools again. For a few summers in high school and undergrad, I was a day camp counselor. I’ve written before about how it helped me develop storytelling skills, but recently I thought of it again because, while I was cleaning out a closet full of old junk, I happened upon a bag of embroidery thread. While…
How to stand out in job interviews as an engineer.
Replacing an internal Node.js module with a native Rust module made a x25 perf boost. Let’s understand why.
