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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 and curated collections.

November 2013

Week 5: Random Structures from LEGO Bricks and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures

LICEcap - best screen capture tool I've ever used

My old code is atrocious

Week 4: Tiny insects evolve anuclear neurons

Week 3: Of lion manes and human beards

October 2013

I published a book with a publisher. Here's what the journey was like.

Week 2: Level 1 of Super Mario Bros. is easy with lexicographic orderings and

I give up, Apple will never understand dual screen as well as Linux

Week 1: Turing's On computable numbers

About achieving polymorphism in Javascript

Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks

Bayesian modeling for the perfect pizza

September 2013

Adventures in homelessness

Lessons learned in a year of freelancing

My new favourite pomodoro app

Are map, reduce, and filter turing complete?

Why you should never write a book in .doc

This paragraph describes YOU perfectly

30 day fitness experiment with results

A month on the road

August 2013

Longtrip, surf's up dude

Longtrip, On the road

Longtrip, barrieri di lingua

July 2013

Writing modular Backbone with Backbone.SubRoute

Language

Always look for the gem

So I bought a GoPro ...

Okay publishers, I get the hint, nonacademics shouldn't cite original sources

CircleCI - sexy continuous integration for private repos

Age