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How I got my dream job in the tech industry without a CS degree
A story about the unconventional strategies I used to land a job I love.
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I ask 100 information questions to four digital assistants
After seeing the poor feedback of Watson in Bridge Crew, I decided to take my four digital assistants for a spin. After 21 questions across four assistants, I learned that Alexa cannot give basic information about Amazon Prime videos, none of them can properly understand which movie you're looking f
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Switching from 1Password to Bitwarden
I've been using an OpenBSD laptop as my workstation a lot more lately, probably because most of my hardware just works now and I don't have to think too much about it. The touchpad works when I touch it, I can be confident that when I close the lid, the laptop will fully suspend and then fully resume again when I open…
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Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries?
Zet Casino 2026: tysiące gier, bonus powitalny, wpłaty BLIK i krypto, wypłaty w minutach oraz polskie wsparcie 24/7. Sprawdź naszą ofertę.
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What We Get Wrong About Technology
Blade Runner (1982) is a magnificent film, but there’s something odd about it. The heroine, Rachael, seems to be a beautiful young woman. In reality, she’s a piece of technology — an organic robot …
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Introduction to WebAssembly: why should we care?
Explaining WebAssembly, the new bytecode format for the web: why it is so important and a tutorial to start using it right now
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ShadowBrokers: The NSA Compromised the SWIFT Network
This is by far, the most interesting release from Shadow Brokers as it does not only contain tools — but also materials describing the most…
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Good books for deep hacks
For the past few months I’ve been compiling a list of books for a deep dive into interesting technical topics. My theory is that working on projects based on these topics will be like strong individual threads I can weave into epic hacks. This list is basically a curriculum for decades of learning about the wonders of…
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Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (2009)
Typically, if you're designing a storage system - such as a filesystem, or a database - one of your major concerns is how to store the data on disk. You have to take care of allocating space for the objects to be stored, as well as storing the indexing data; you have to worry about what happens when you want to extend…
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Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)
This has been a long time coming. I had meant to write this post around the New Year, before the wave of death of Ruby stuff and before DHH’s “ TDD is dead ” ruckus:
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Statistics, we have a problem
Recently, while browsing Twitter, I saw a few machine learning researchers post about an incident at one of their big conferences (NIPS) in…
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt
This is a story about finding a job as a senior software engineer in Toronto - with a twist: just having moved there from Germany.
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Anagram Scoring
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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2017 is not just another prime number
Good bye year 2016. Hello year 2017. We all know that 2017 is a prime number, but it is more than just another prime number. 2017π (roun...
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Impossible Java
My private corner for sharing thoughts about programming, computers and everything.
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Papers I like
This started out on Twitter and I expected having to write up maybe 50 or so, but then it made the rounds. I don’t think I have 1200+ papers that I’d recommend reading, and even if I di…
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A Review of Perl 6
[ Update , Feb. 5, 2020: Perl 6 is now called Raku. I’ve updated the review title, but left the review body intact. ]
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Amazon’s New Customer
The key to understanding Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods is to understand that Amazon didn’t buy a retailer: the company bought a customer.
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How Shor's Algorithm works (2007)
I’ve been talking a lot recently about how quantum algorithms don’t work. But last week JR Minkel, an editor at Scientific American, asked me to write a brief essay about how quantum al…
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The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
Great web applications boot up fast and stay silky smooth once they've started. In other contexts, applications can choose quick loading or responsiveness once they've loaded. Great games can get away with a long loading bar as long as they react instantly once the gamer gets going. In
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How I Stole a User's Siacoin
A lesson in Sia wallet seed safety
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Patrick Winston Explains Deep Learning
Patrick Winston is one of the greatest teachers at M.I.T., and for 27 years was Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (which later became part of CSAIL ).
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A Clash of Cultures
There’s an Internet controversy going on between Dale Dougherty, the CEO of Maker Media and Naomi Wu ( @realsexycyborg ), a Chinese Maker and Internet personality. Briefly, Dale Doughtery tweeted a single line questioning Naomi Wu’s authenticity, which is destroying Naomi’s reputation and livelihood in China.
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013)
Homer: There's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!
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