Personal blog of John Novak

A DA’s office in California offers plea deals and dismissals for misdemeanor offenses — but only if people give up their DNA.

The Haskell Phrasebook is a free quick-start Haskell guide comprised of a sequence of small annotated programs.

Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.

Forensic Architecture’s Digital Violence investigation is a multidimensional study of the global use of the malware Pegasus made by Israeli cyber-surveillance company NSO Group.

Most open source time series databases struggle with high-cardinality time series data. Learn more about high-cardinality and how to benchmark database performance with this type of data.

Freedom > portability?

Severe and unpredictable weather events like heat domes in the Pacific Northwest pose huge economic risks that aren’t being fully appreciated.  

John Lewis Partnership chair Sharon White has said the company will provide basic literacy and numeracy classes to young staff because they have been "completely failed" by the education system.

Plans like United Healthcare say it’s necessary to contain health care costs. Experts say it’s the wrong approach.

[1/2] Here is a demo of a simple, completely unoptimized terminal renderer I wrote over a few days. Supports scrollback, line wrapping, Unicode combining, RTL-over-LTR, multicolor fonts, changing fonts on the fly, etc. It runs at several thousand FPS. yo…

[EPILEPSY WARNING] At the end of this video, I demonstrate colored text on colored background tiles. The reference renderer displays this benchmark so quickly that the screen appears to flash colors violently. If you are photo-sensitive, you may want to…