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Illegally climbing the Golden Gate bridge at dawn (2011)
When we posted our first year-end lists way back in 2006, the whole mp3 blog thing was still fairly new. We certainly weren't the trailblazers, but we did have the advantage of starting our little music blog before the internet became flooded with the likes of us, before services like Hype Machine and Elbo.ws were…
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5D ‘Superman memory’ crystal could lead to unlimited lifetime data storage
Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.
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PEP 435 Accepted – Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
This PEP proposes adding an enumeration type to the Python standard library.
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Court: Federal Law Allows Lying in TSA-Related FOIA Requests
Moments ago, the remaining claims in my lawsuit stemming from being illegally detained at FLL airport and then lied to about the existence of CCTV video of the incident, were dismissed. The questio…
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Mozilla in 2013
What an amazing year for the Web. In 2013, we celebrated 15 years of Mozilla and 15 Years of a Better Web, which we’ve been instrumental in innovating an
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Real pixel coding (2011)
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
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Introducing Trello Business Class
Research, expert perspectives, and product announcements from Atlassian on how teams can work smarter with AI. Subscribe for monthly insights on the future of teamwork.
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Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later
Justin Sheehy discusses whether or not Riak would choose Erlang today.
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Web development in C: Crazy?
Preliminary verdict: crazy like a fox (ish)
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Ph.D. 2.0: Rethinking the Ph.D. Application
The start of my sabbatical has given me a moment to reflect on my publications. But my CV only shows a list of neatly cataloged papers: title, authors, conference. Each one appearing no different from another. But how each paper ended up published is its own story, a story about people and opportunity.
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Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins
[As always, I preface any discussion of Amazon and Apple by noting that I own some stock in both companies, and that I worked at Amazon from 1997 to 2004] A lot of folks, especially Apple supporters, like to characterize Amazon as irrational, even crazy, for its willingness to live with low margins
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Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise
IBM Developer is the source for hands-on training and in-demand learning on relevant technologies such as generative AI, data science, Java, and more.
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Python Shortcuts for the Python Beginner
The following are just a collection of some useful shortcuts and tools I've found in Python over the years. Hopefully you find them helpful.
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Little Lisp interpreter
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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“Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere”
Continuing the case method on MBA Mondays, I am going to tell a story about a business model pivot that was not a full business pivot. In the lull between Flatiron and Union Square Ventures, I made a few angel investments and the best one was in a company called TACODA that went on to […]
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Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?” I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...
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Carlsen wins game 9, only needs 1 draw in 3 remaining games
The Lecturer Training Programme (LTP) is a process that is used by the FIDE Arbiters’ Commission to ensure that those qualifying from it will have the necessary knowledge and skills to teach candidates who wish to become arbiters at FA level and above. The following have progressed to the final stage of the Lecturer…