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Clojure Core
Earlier today Rich Hickey let the cat out of the bag that I’m joining the Clojure Core development team.
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Coalton: How to Have Our (Typed) Cake and (Safely) Eat It Too, in Common Lisp
By Robert Smith, Elias Lawson-Fox, Cole Scott Updated July 1, 2025 by Robert Smith. Introduction Coalton is a statically typed functional programming language built with Common Lisp. We can load it like a normal Lisp library. CL-USER> (asdf:load-system "coalton") CL-USER> (in-package #:coalton-user) COALTON-USER> This…
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Scala projects are difficult to maintain
Scala is a powerful programming language that can make certain small teams hyper-productive.
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Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
Why everyone should use web monetization to help lower the amount of ads on the web
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Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
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Why it’s usually crazier than you expect
I want to try to explain why Gamestop went up 100-fold in the last year and why Sears never recovered.
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Using government guidelines to police content: state censorship?
YouTube's decision to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture
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WhatsApp alternatives that respect privacy
WhatsApp may be secure but it’s not private. Learn about the best alternatives to WhatsApp that genuinely respect your privacy.
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When zero cost abstractions aren't zero cost
Rust is built around the concept of “zero cost abstraction”. The idea is that you can write human-friendly high level code and the compiler will give you for free performance at least as good as any optimized low level code you could have written yourself. With zero cost abstraction, you no longer have to trade off…
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Alexa leaks private wishlists
This morning, my wife noticed that Alexa was insistently flashing its little blue lights. "Alexa... Notifications?" "You have one notification. An item on your wishlist has dropped in price. The … is now only £…" And that's how my wife found out what I planned to get her for her birthday! What happened to cause this?…
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What’s your API’s “Time To 200”?
M'colleague Charles has introduced me to the most spectacular phrase - "Time To 200". That's a measurement of the length of time it takes a new user to go from signing up to your API to getting their first HTTP 200 response. Think about the last time you started using a new API... Fill in a tediously long registration…
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Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control
Synack Red Team breaks down a Windows RCE vulnerability enabling full remote code execution and complete attacker control — exploitation techniques and real-world security analysis.
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Why Zulip will stand the test of time
Quill, a team chat company with $16 million in venture capital funding, was acquired by Twitter and shut down their product last week. Users were given a mere four days to export their data prior to deletion; direct messages and private channels could not be exported at all. Our sympathies go out to …
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SQLite Archive Files (2018)
An "SQLite Archive" is a file container similar to a ZIP archive or Tarball but based on an SQLite database.
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Showing GUIs from Shell Scripts
Ever written a quick (shell) script to automate a small task at some point? Then that script grew over the years and perhaps ended up in the hands of way more users than you originally anticipated? If you were lucky enough to experience this, maybe you wondered: Wouldn't it be nice to have a GUI for that script?
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OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
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Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb
See how Honeycomb reduced Kafka cost by a total of 87% per megabyte/sec of throughput w/ AWS’s new Amazon EC2 lm4gn instance family and Confluent Tiered Storage.
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Film simulations from scratch using Python
Disclaimer: The post is more about understanding LUTs and HaldCLUTs and writing methods from scratch to apply these LUTs to an image rather than coming up with CLUTs themselves from scratch. Outlin…
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Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA
Earlier this year, I published a post showing our results of the interferometric imaging of Cassiopeia A and Cygnus A at 4.9 GHz with the Allen Telescope Array . Near the end of July, I decided to perform more interferometric observations of Cygnus A at a higher frequency, in order to obtain better resolution. I chose…
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Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka
Seven years ago I started writing about my adventures with Clojure. I started using Octopress back then and was still using it until today. Octopress worked great for my blogging purposes and I'm grateful that it existed. However, in recent years I became frustrated with the experience of using it, which is probably…
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Radio users reminded not to use radios in crimes
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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