The Olive Garden: it's where poor people go to eat rich people food. — Dave Yegge This is another one of those blog topics I've been s...

On the topic of life lessons from a born pessimist.

This is definitely not a "learn distributed systems in 21 days" post. I recommend a principled, from the foundations-up, studying of distrib...

Predicting The End of Manmade Software

Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.

Interruptions and context switching are the two most costly factors that directly impact a programmer's daily productivity. Although there is no permanent way to avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimize their impact. The Cost of an Interruption…

A retrospective on a few months of working on a graduate degree in computer science.

“To flash conviction on the mind.”

This is a history of the development of computation, logic and algebra from classical times to the twentieth century, told through primary sources.