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Why I Don't Love Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is a classic text that's had a strong influence on countle...
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PeerTube, the “Decentralized YouTube”, succeeds in crowdfunding
‘Puisque ces mystères me dépassent, feignons d’en être l’organisateur.’ –Jean Cocteau. Click to read Quariety, by anas sabbar, a Substack publication. Launched 6 years ago.
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Estimating the chances of something that hasn’t happened yet
A handy rule of thumb for creating a confidence interval for the probability of an event you haven't seen happen yet.
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I discovered a browser bug
I accidentally discovered a huge browser bug a few months ago and I'm pretty excited about it. Security engineers always seem like the "cool kids" to me, so I'm hoping that now I can be part of the club, and y'know, get into the special parties or whatever.
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The Benjamin Franklin method for learning more from programming books
The Benjamin Franklin method for programming books: read a code sample, close the book, and rewrite it from memory to truly learn it.
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How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)
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Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text
In early 2016 I realized that it was possible to use zero-width characters, like zero-width non-joiner or other zero-width characters like the zero-width space to fingerprint text. Even with just a single type of zero-width character the presence or non-presence of the non-visible character is enough bits to…
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Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time.
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Designing Windows 95’s User Interface
Three years ago I came across an interesting paper written up by a Microsoft employee, Kent Sullivan, on the process and findings of designing the new user interface for Windows 95. The web page ha…
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All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He…
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Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)
This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 24, 2017, at the Front Trends conference in Warsaw.
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What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
In early 2016 I eventually decided it was my turn to take part in this project. I decided my job was going to be presenting the potential and the beauty inside these sketches. I selected those that I found most interesting and genuine and diverse, then rendered them as if they were real. I became the executor of these…
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I don’t understand Graph Theory
Graph theory represents one of the most important and interesting areas in computer science. But at the same time it’s one of the most…
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Instagram’s CEO
The surprising resignation of Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger should not, in fact, be surprising: this became inevitable the moment they sold Instagram to Facebook.
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Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Color: From Hex codes to Eyeballs
If you're curious about rainbows, colorimetry, gamma encoding, and experiments run in the late 1920s, then this is the post for you!
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Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016)
2015 was a pretty good year for Intel. Their quarterly earnings reports exceeded expectations every quarter. They continue to be the only game in town for the serious server market, which continues to grow exponentially; from the earnings reports of the two largest cloud vendors, we can see that AWS and Azure grew by…
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The hotel bathroom puzzle
In his wonderful book The Evolution of Useful Things, the author and civil engineer Henry Petroski shares one of the most famous case studies in the history of design: Before it was destroyed by fi…
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Some notes about HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is going to be standardized. As an old protocol guy, I thought I'd write up some comments. Google (pbuh) has both the most popular ...
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I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets
We'll Rewrite Your SaaS Landing Page Into A High…2018561 points88 commentsTech Industry & Business details
SaaS Landing page inspiration is usually "pretty" but not conversion/result driven so in this article, I compiled the best SaaS Landing pages examples I've seen and broke-down their secrets for conversions!
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Sneak Peek at WebAssembly Studio
WebAssembly.Studio is an online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you learn and teach others. It’s also a Swiss Army knife that comes in handy whenever working with WebAssembly (WASM). ...