I’m taking a sabbatical week over the holidays. This week’s posts will serve as a sort of report of what I got up to the previous day instead of the usual schedule – wish me luck that I achieve even half of what I’d like to. As I sit here slowly sipping on my tea [...]
I’m taking a sabbatical week over the holidays. This week’s posts will serve as a sort of report of what I got up to the previous day instead of the usual schedule – wish me luck that I achieve even half of what I’d like to. After I managed to get the toggl and toshl [...]
I’m taking a sabbatical week over the holidays. This week’s posts will serve as a sort of report of what I got up to the previous day instead of the usual schedule – wish me luck that I achieve even half of what I’d like to. Toshl is a cool expense tracking app from Slovenia, [...]
A couple of days ago I decided that doing my graduation thesis on a topic that, when suggested, brought a sparkle to my mentor’s eye and made him suggest I might want to think about picking a co-mentor just wasn’t hard enough – so I decided to do the whole thing in Haskell. I want [...]
Today has been such an epically clumsy day – knocking over everything I touch, nearly killing random people in the street and myself in the process – that I just had to share with everyone. Reading this might give you a good chuckle at my expense Let’s start at the beginning then, shall we? The [...]
This morning there was a link going around listing the 15 papers you should read to understand node.js’s background. A large portion of the list is devoted to the comparison of thread- and event- based models of execution. Since I hear a lot about event loops being better than threads, I read The problem with [...]
On Thursday I published my most popular post to date Why programmers work at night. After writing I was certain it wasn’t that interesting, sure it might be HN frontpage worthy – it never got there – but other than that I felt it wasn’t a very informative post, just musings of a hacker who has [...]
The past few months have seen an explosion of client-side MVC frameworks. Wikipedia lists eleven of these things! And yet even a year ago the majority of developers was perfectly content with jQuery. But as browser apps become ever more powerful it only makes sense to realize callback soup isn’t fun and hey, wasn’t there some [...]
A popular saying goes that Programmers are machines that turn caffeine into code. And sure enough, ask a random programmer when they do their best work and there’s a high chance they will admit to a lot of late nights. Some earlier, some later. A popular trend is to get up at 4am and get [...]
Science Wednesday is a category I’ve wanted to create for a while. It will feature a weekly summary of an interesting academic article or other piece of science that I find – the primary reason being to force me into reading original sources and hopefully give you guys something interesting. Even though the world is [...]
