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Why aren't there any Open Source laser printers?
WordPress.com is the best place for your personal blog or business site.
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Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months
E-mail Zero Redux Two weeks ago, I introduced E-mail Zero, the concept of living life with no e-mail. The motivation was to investigate innovative ways ... Read more
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How Github has changed the open source world
You've arrived at a unique corner of the web where the spheres of open-source development and theology intersect in fascinating ways.
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Compiling to λ-calculus
Though it contains forms only for function applications, variable references and anonymous functions, it is equivalent to a Turing machine.
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Hacking Twitter's Javascript
New Twitter uses a massive amount of javascript (for a webapp). Nearly 1 Megabyte of minified, obfuscated javascript powers the site's frontend.
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Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access
[This post is mostly a rehash of a comment I made on the last one, but I guess more people see posts than comments. Oh, and I will try to post something about sauropod vertebrae Real Soon Now.] &#…
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Kung Fu Tetris
Lannyland - A Land of Imagination
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The myth of the Lisp genius
I'm fascinated by the myth of the Lisp genius, the eccentric programmer who accomplishes super-human feats writing Lisp. I'm not saying that such geniuses don't exist; they do. Here I'm using "myth" in the sense of a story with archetypical characters that fuels the imagination. I'm thinking myth in the sense of…
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Chrome's Most Important Feature
True words. I still remember the time when Chrome had just launched. I could not locate the reload page option in context menu. Just after a couple of hours, and probably a reboot later, it appeared magically. Something similar happened with Spell Check. I had no idea Chrome was auto-updating in the backend. And when…
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Apple's iTV: Apps Are the New Channels
Why not something like Newsstand for TV network apps?
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Google doesn't get 'social', but Apple doesn't understand the Internet
It's been said that Google doesn't get 'social' and, though I think that is vastly overstated, there is truth there. Similarly, I'd say that Apple doesn't understand the internet. Well I have a simple theory about it. There's a cliché that everyone's greatest strength is also their greatest weakness, and I believe…
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Symfony 2.0 is now available
After 12 preview releases, 5 beta versions, and 6 release candidates, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of Symfony 2.0, final version.
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How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies
A bootstrapped developer doubled his software price from $9.99 to $19.99 and saw sales increase tenfold — proving that customers still equate cost with quality.
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Launching Google Wallet on Sprint and working with Visa, AmEx and Discover
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
I find myself saying this quite often these days to entrepreneurs and their product teams. It's something that I've noticed working with leading social platforms like Etsy, Twitter, Tumblr, and others. Services such as these have a large number of their users accessing the service regularly on a logged out basis. I…
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How Google's build system works
This is the second in a four part series describing how we use the cloud to scale building and testing of software at Google. This series el...