Imagine a circle with radius 1 cm rolling completely along the circumference of a circle with radius 4 cm. How many rotations did the smaller circle make? Be prepared for a surprise!

Sigils have a bit of a bad reputation. According to their detractors, sigils are “just a way of encoding type information” in variable names – basically a glorified version of apps Hungarian notati…

A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air. ...

At the heart of investing is understanding why something is mis-priced

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

I will no longer be speaking at RustConf 2023 about A (Possible) Future for Compile-Time Programming.What?The decision happened after I was reached out to by...

It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability

How Open Source provided the path to achieve our publishing goals

People never really bought into the idea of the metaverse, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t interested in collaborative open worlds.

A sufficient understanding of computers is impossible without learning how compilers and their parts work. It is like stepping into the computer's mind and seeing how it feels from the inside. Compil...

Tetris + Falling Sand Game. Available for Windows, Linux

For the very rich, even the world’s biggest performers—Beyoncé, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Andrea Bocelli—are available, at a price.

UX Research is in trouble, we’re not pulling our weight, we’re losing our jobs because of it, and we can fix it.

(Spoiler: trusting your contributors works)
Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django.
It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you.
My use…

It’s 24 hours long, it’s just a black screen, and it has 40 million views. WHAT.

Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is no different. A line of excited customers queuing up before the shutters are open.

“Disneyland isn’t our land of dreams, this is!” says…

Statically typed languages really feel incomplete without true macros, so I hacked that functionality together for typescript.