From ‘Jingle Bells Batman Smells’ to ‘Real Programmers Write in FORTRAN,’ Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill) dives into how we share our collective knowledge and how we pass wisdom to future generations. He advocates for writing software with future generations…

https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js CSS often feels like this mysterious, whimsical force governing everything that we see on the web. It can be […]

Learn what Python bytecode is, how Python uses it to execute your code, and how knowing what it does can help you.

Why Developers Choose It – And How You Can Stop Them

This is the second part in a series on WebAssembly and what makes it fast. If you haven’t read the others, we recommend starting from the beginning. JavaScript started out ...

A visual exploration of what The Four Color Theorem can say about software complexity.

Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017

Read the paper:
http://tomwildenhain.com/PowerPointTM/Paper.pdf

Download the TM:
http://tomwildenhain.com/PowerPointTM/PowerPointTM.pptx

Original video (without live background…

My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…

Pay what you want for a bundle of Python resources and support charity!

I feel horrible today. I am sick- my throat hurts, my head is not working as it should. Hence, I decided I will tell you how to write horrible Java code. If you are tired of all these beautiful…

This video shows off the new and improved look of Logstalgia (aka ApachePong), a website access log visualization tool:
http://code.google.com/p/logstalgia/

Also check out my other visualization tool called Gource:
http://code.google.com/p/gource/

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