2023 - To Read

Hello. This September will be the 25th anniversary of my writing my first program in a subset of C++ for a high school course. It’s been a…

And how YOU can too!

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First published 2010. I stand by this observation although I’d love to learn more about the neuro-chemical mechanisms that might support it. Studying poker has helped me crack a long-standing (maybe 20-year-old) puzzle for me: why are so many programmers musicians? I’ve sang and played guitar and various other stringed instruments since I was 8 and I started programming at 13, so I’ve lived this dual life for a long time, but I’ve never understood it. I’ve heard explanations like “music is mathematical and programming is mathematical”, but I was never satisfied with them because they didn’t match my experience. I don’t think “mathlich” when I’m programming. Here are the three threads–programming, music, and poker–and how they came together for me.

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

The fact that everyone alive on our planet is now connected electronically is not a surprise. This universal connection has been a scifi theme for many decades before it happened, and this view of universal connection was not that difficult … Continue reading →

Inflation has fallen considerably from the highs of mid-2022, but price gains are still costing Americans an extra $213 a month compared to last year.

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:shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.

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Personal webpage of Hisham Muhammad, developer of htop, LuaRocks and GoboLinux.

The smell of fresh pine sawdust filled the air, with more floating up as I sanded the last rough corner of the stool. My toddler was happily sanding her own block off to the side. Woodworking was a new hobby I'd picked up. My old ones, coding, reading, writing, had

What the **** does that mean?

The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead

I decided to make a time zone converter. It had seemed like an easy project, but I was horribly mistaken

An overwhelming number of frameworks and tooling available today gives the impression that web development has gotten perhaps too complex. Juan Diego Rodríguez explores if web development really is that complex and, most importantly, how we can prevent it from getting even more difficult than we already perceive it to be.

Some things that people don’t tend to know about Git anymore, and some new things you might not have noticed.

If you're a software developer, at some point in your career, you probably had an idea for an app or a SaaS that you wanted to build...

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A document in her papers in the Library of Congress sheds new light on postwar research on psychedelics.

A forgotten strand of computing illuminates the famous stories of the early micros.

As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human brain. Brain ...

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