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Software engineering lessons from production, raw and honest from the heart — almost 20 years of them. Jump to a year in the sidebar, or browse categories.

July 2014

With 90k I could become a full-time author

June 2014

My new favourite Javascript trick

Using returns and callbacks in the same function. Sounds like crazy talk I know, but hear me out, I have good reason. I think.

Why I love Tinder

May 2014

(ab)Using d3.js to make a Pong game

Feedback my sample d3.js screencast

How to royally cock up as a freelancer

April 2014

Week 20: Making ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc

Writey write about Write the Docs

Week 19: Relativity theory and time perception

How the internet saved my arse, and my longboard

March 2014

After five months, my effective hourly rate with a publisher is 3eur/hour

Week 18: the role of diet in periodontal disease

Are introverts more creative?

Week 17: What happens when you only eat meat for a year?

February 2014

I returned to Slovenia after 3 months and I am culturally shocked

Week 16: On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

Week 15: A tutorial on the expressiveness and universality of fold

When the universe tries to communicate, or how I almost didn't get home

January 2014

Why I don't have a 5 year plan

Week 14, heuristic evaluation of user interfaces

Mixing mixpanel into backbone

Week 13, constructing logic circuits in mammalian cells

Cirque du Soleil blew my mind

Week 12: practical cold boot attacks that will make cryptonerds shit their pants

Week 11, Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers

New Year's in New York

December 2013

Week 10, The myriad virtues of Wavelet Trees

You, take a break

GoKarting is better than both sex _and_ bacon

Week 9: Life at low Reynold's number