IDN, International Domain Names, is the concept that lets us register and use international characters in domain names, and by international we of course mean characters outside of the ASCII range. Recently I have fought some battles against IDN and IDN decoding so I felt this urge to write a lot of words about it ……
Lighting, perspective, variation chaining, and other tricks to try with DALL·E.
There haven’t been a lot of community structures or resources for Staff+ engineers. That’s changing.
Disaster Relief. We saw the best of Internet users when they pulled together to help each other through several natural disasters in 1994. The year brought floods, earthquakes, and other major tragedies. Almost immediately following each of these events, Net users gathered around their terminals and formed newsgroups…
If you ask a software developer the question 'What are some example uses of semiconductors?', they'll probably mention 'silicon chips', like the ones found in processors or graphics cards. Indeed, this is probably the answer that I would have given just a couple years ago, but I have since become enlightened as to the…
What's the essential skill of a cartoonist? Drawing ability? Humor? A deep well of childhood trauma? I'd say it's an eye for simplification, capturing the…
How to model work that interacts with ambiguity
Any ‘computer’ is made up of hundreds of separate computers plugged together, any of which can be hacked. I list some of these parts.
Many years ago, I took a test. It was the first step of our “Learning to Learn” class. After answering a series of multiple choice question, the form issued forth a proclomation:
Almost Always Unsigned # Written by Dale Weiler Twitter GitHub Last updated Saturday, January 1, 2022 The need for signed integer arithmetic is often misplaced as most integers never represent negative values within a program. The indexing of arrays and iteration count of a loop reflects this concept as well. There…
Or How Competition Returns to Elite Colleges
The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2. There are several notable things about this:
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. ...
Yes, some people do it, and yes, for some people, it works fine. But..... If you're standing up a new server and it has an IPv6 IP address, ...
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one.
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Technical summaries of developments in IRC software and protocol specifications during the second half of 2021.
I don’t know if this is a new trend or if I’m just noticing it now, but more and more the popular wisdom seems to be that you shouldn’t monetize your hobby. That if you do, it turns it into a job, a hustle1; that it sucks all the fun out of it. Putting aside for now the fact that some people might want to turn their…
While browsing twitter, I came across this tweet:
This tree diagram traces the evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment.
Today I announce a new project! This is the big thing I have been working on since leaving Niantic, and I am very excited about it. It is a game making tool for phones, called Downpour. Here is what it currently looks like: The utopian vision for the project is
The OS/2 Museum has made available the first version of a display driver disk for Windows 9x running on VirtualBox . The driver uses a linear framebuffer and supports 8/16/24/32bpp modes with resolutions up to 1920×1200 pixels (see more below). The driver is not accelerated but tends to be very speedy on modern…
