Like Sky before it, Netflix is a television company using tech as a crowbar for market entry. The tech has to be good, but it’s still fundamentally a commodity, and all of the questions that matter are TV questions. The same applies to Tesla, and indeed to many other companies using software to ente
Lately I’ve been seeing lots of anecdotes from people trying to get into Rust who get really hung up on strings (&str, String, and their relationship). Beyond Rust’s usual challenges around ownership, there can be an added layer of frustration because strings are so easy in the great majority of languages. You just…
How I (almost) replicated OpenAI’s GPT-2 (124M version)
FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store Zhou, et al., 2021
Typing shortcuts on international keyboard layouts is broken. Here is how developers can fix it.
This page doesn’t apply to all estranged parents, only to estranged parents who are members of estranged parents’ forums. Read why.
For decades, my perception of USB was that of a technology both simple and reliable. You plug it and it works. The two first iterations [1] [2] freed PCs from a badly fragmented connector world made of RJ-45 (Ethernet), DA-15 (Joystick), DE-9 (Serial), DIN (PS/2), SCSI, and DB-25 (Parallel). When USB-3.0 came out…
I talked about the importance of reading foundational papers last week. To followup, here is my compilation of foundational papers in the d...
Most of the lectures, labs, and notebooks are similar to the previous edition, nevertheless, some are brand new. I will try to make clear which is which.
Selling your soul has never been easier. Today, there are plenty of demonology books that teach you how to bargain with Lucifer, written by authors who have probably done this themselves on multiple occasions.
We’ve lost far too many hackers to suicide. What if Satoshi was one of them?
It wasn't my intent to have this next post be about locating a source of a transmitter - but the temptation proved irresistible. Over the pa...
This post is the first in a three-part series. The remaining two: How does Google Authenticator work? (Part 2) How does Google Authenticator work? (Part 3) When you’re accessing services over the WEB – let’s pick GMail as an example – a couple of things have to happen upfront: The server you’re connecting to (GMail in…
I love coding. Ever since I bought my first computer (a VIC-20), I’ve been fascinated by computer programming. For many years I never thought of why I enjoyed it so much – I just knew I…
I stepped down as CEO in October 2020 after nine years at CircleUp. I will be a CEO again. There were parts of the role I loved and it was the best job I ever had. During my transition, I’ve had ti…
I have a set of baseline CSS styles that come with me from project to project. In the past, I'd use a typical CSS reset, but times have changed, and I believe I have a better set of global styles!
I have switched teams more often than I have had to implement an AVL tree, and you can guess which one of those two was taught in school. I wish someone had taught me how to join a new team! While learning a new codebase can be daunting, I've found a few things that work for me.
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
My first job was both a blessing and a nightmare. It taught me more about the world than about software development, but those lessons were invaluable.
Michael Milken, private equity, and a salt roll-up are showing we're in for shortages and price spikes.
One person's entry-level contribution is another person's difficult bugfix or backport.
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
Noise is an indispensable tool for creative coding. We use it to generate all kinds of organic effects like clouds, landscapes and contours. Or to move and distort objects with a more lifelike behaviour.
I hope everyone in the States had a fantastic Thanksgiving (even if you’re a Dallas Cowboys football fan).
Why is Rust being used to replace parts of the JavaScript web ecosystem like minification (Terser), transpilation (Babel), formatting (Prettier), bundling (webpack), linting (ESLint), and more?
