Having known about the Apple Watch for some time and knowing lots of my friends were planning to buy one, I was sceptical as my needs are quite different to that of those of the sighted and hearing. I have to rely on specific accessible features. However, I was curious as Apple products have b...
Sometimes I do things for no real reasons other than “because I can” and/or “it amuses me”. For example, embedding a snarky message into my HTTPS certificate.
[This essay in Spanish] [This essay in French] [This essay in Chinese] In an old joke, two noblemen vie to name the bigger number. The first, after ruminating for hours, triumphantly announces "Eighty-three!" The second, mightily impressed, replies "You win." A biggest number contest is clearly pointless when the…
tl;dr; We decided to go to Y combinator with HippyVM , our high performance PHP implementation, and we did not get through after two round...
There's a little kerfuffle going on over on HN about a newly discovered local root exploit on OS X 10.10.5 , so I thought this might be a g...
Some people start their day by reading The New York Times . Others end it by watching the nightly news. Some get it from The Daily Show . Others download it from a variety weblogs. Some keep up-to-the-minute by following CNN. Others have instant news updates automatically text messaged to their phone. But everybody…
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I wanted to create a website for a personal project. This is usually the great opportunity to learn - no time pressure, no external requirements, etc. That meant I could choose the language I wanted to try out in anger (Rust) and take it for a spin. Here’s a short summary of the experience.
(Short form article, Short lecture , Long lecture , demo of a fraction of the idea of a distributed website (or paste this link in maelstrom ))
What I look for in a code review, from design and duplication to tests, and how I discuss changes with the person who wrote them.
Arthur’s thoughts on coding, software engineering, and other interesting things.
Bassel Khartabil, a leading figure in the Syrian Open Source software community, has been imprisoned by the Syrian government since...
Engineers earn more money than we need, and the world is full of interesting problems that don’t promise a financial return. Why are the…
I graduated with a Computer Science minor from the University of Virginia in 1992. The reason it’s a minor and not a major is because to major in CS at UVa you had to go through the Engineering School, and I was absolutely not cut out for that kind
Butterick’s Practical Typography
You are born with no body parts. One by one, your organs are pushed into you. Should anyone attempt to interact with you before your organs have finished arriving you will die. Luckily this doesn&#…
A better map of the difference between solar and standard time, and some trivia
Rob Pike, one of the creators of the Go language, stated that he expected the language to be adopted by C++ programmers, a prediction that hasn’t been realised. Recently however at the HFT fi…
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