I am reflecting here on the worst public embarrassment of my career. Two days ago I appeared live on television on ABC News Breakfast to provide comment on North Korea’s recent rocket launch, a top…
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…
Usually when your laptop screen breaks you curse and just fork out the cash to get it fixed. Perhaps whilst you’re waiting for the replacement parts you plug in an external monitor. It’s annoying but it needn’t be a show stopper. But what if you’re two days bus ride from the nearest major city and you can’t trust the…
Most SAD light therapy lamps are not bright enough. How to get brighter light than any you can buy!
Transactions are mundane and commonplace. Have we forgotten why they're useful?
What it looks like to do a PhD: the view from my desk. Recently, I have been talking to many prospective Computer Science PhD students ...
(File dated November 9, 1998) PREFACE: Another file from the same disk with the Nihilanth sketches, this one, if it is to believed, written the day after we shipped Half-Life. I do believe it because the file’s creation date is indeed November 9, 1998, and I am not l33t enough to know how to fake […]
Jorge Silva's personal blog on programming and software engineering
Behavioural economics, data science and artificial intelligence.
Last week I’ve self-published my first book called “Writing An Interpreter In Go”, which you can get at interpreterbook.com . I want to tell you a little bit about why I chose to write this particular book.
I was part of the first ever group of foreigners given access to all stations across both lines of the Pyongyang Metro. Here's my experience!
Learning about working from home and location independent lifestyle was a true pivotal moment for me. Before that, I didn’t think much about the concept of “freedom at work” or anything like that. And even though the concept was a bit far-fetched for me at the time, I realized that it surely was something that I…
Struggling to complete your game? Discover practical strategies to overcome distractions, stay focused, and manage your game development project effectively.
In which I wonder if my subconscious is a better developer than I am, as solutions seem to come to mind, bypassing the work I consciously put in.
“The decline of Stackoverflow” is now trending on reddit, and I started this post as a comment in the thread, but it got too long. I’m in the 0.01% (whichContinue reading
Hi everyone! Here's part five of my favorite programming, computer and science books. If you're just joining, please see part one, part two, part three and part four. I've been collecting and researching science, math, physics, programming books since 2001 or 2002, so it's been close to 15 years of book research…
You and me, we’re bad at a lot of things. But email isn’t one of those things, no matter how much it seems like it.
every rectangle represents one week
Can cold showers, winter plunges, and brisk walks in the chilly outdoors provide some of the same benefits as intense exercise—including weight loss and increased energy levels? Such a link …
Mathematics, applications of mathematics to life in general, and my life as a mathematician.
I’m the author of Behind the Ivy Curtain: A Data Driven Guide to Elite College Admissions :
Dmitry.GR: My epic saga of updating a plane's very old GPS's data in a very modern way
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels. The package makers, the man page writers. The rounded windows in Qt mixed with the less rounded windows of GTK. The ones who literally see things differently because of missing proprietary fonts. They’re not fond of rules, installation wizards, …
