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It’s tempting to believe that taking your work home will make you a better software engineer, and that work/life balance will limit your learning. For some software developers programming isn’t just a job: it’s something to do for fun, sometimes even a reason for being. If you love coding and coding is your job, why…
Be a creator, not just a consumer.
A Toast to the Frood Who Really Knew Where His Towel Was
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
In early September I gave a keynote at Kiwi PyCon in New Zealand on effective learning for programmers. There were two pieces to the talk: one about …
This past weekend a screenshot went around Twitter (my part of Twitter at least!) weight = num_items * Max_held_mult; if( weight <= random(100) ) ?label8; print "You're holding too many things already!"; new_line; rfalse; .label8; ...
I started this blog on June 12th 2002—twenty years ago today! To celebrate two decades of blogging, I decided to pull together some highlights and dive down a self-indulgent nostalgia …
I took me 7 years to admit I'd made a mistake in choosing a Z-Wave Wireless Lighting System. Finally I've taken stock and replaced it!
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan
Insurance companies, like betting companies, need high margins to keep operating. You are paying that margin.
Read this if you're thinking about quitting. I personally think about quitting three or four times a month. I've found a way to NOT quit.
Joey Hess inspires me. He lives in a cabin and programs Haskell on a drastically under-powered netbook. He harvests all his electricity from the sun with a homemade electrical system. Joey has designed his computing life to be highly distributed like the git version control he loves. His internet connection is…
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
Chip that come into the museum are all scanned on a Canon 5600F flatbed scanner. It has a good (there is some better though) depth of field, and its fast. Typically chips are scanned at 300dpi, or for small ones (or ones that have a die visible) 600dpi. This keep the file sizes reasonable, yet still allows them to be…
This post is a guest post from my friend Brian Sharp My post before this was a kind of therapy / Buddhism / personal growth kind of deal, but I also spend a lot of time thinking ab...
Using time series panels and Grafana Live streaming, Doom fans can now pursue total annihilation on Grafana.
When working remotely, asking for help is often just a few keystrokes away. So it's tempting to "quickly" ask someone for support when you get stuck.
Apprenticeships beat schooling. Here's why they're a superior method for learning, and how you can apply this to the things you want to master.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements—A Review
Matt Kirkland is a designer. He probably reads too much.
Do not apologize for replying late to my email par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
After a barrage of recommendations on my twitter, I finally ended up reading Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks. The central premise of the book is simple: everyone has got about four thousand weeks to live, and spending that limited time chasing efficiency is wrongheaded. The message seems old. The entire…
