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.

Studies show that human factors most influence the quality of our work. So why do we put so much stake in technical solutions?