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184 articles from 2012 · show all

June 2012

why I don't sleep

New Foursquare [screengrab porn]

Do waste many a single moment

Flotr2 - my favorite javascript graph library

May 2012

As a power user, I want to punch you every time I change a setting

Natural Language Generation system architectures

Project Management Techniques to Help Start-ups

Programmers are optimists

This week, the future finally started

Can you pay one compliment to one stranger every day?

Disability, startups and loneliness

A year of 750words.com - with shiny graphs

Web page segmentation

Inside a Google onsite interview

Remember to feed your sysadmins

My brain can't handle OOP anymore

Steal my startup idea: Rent-a-mum

Skype does not an IDE make

Three benefits of trying to gain weight

April 2012

Google sent me a "what to know in on-site interviews" email. Here it is.

Making our irc bot talk

There is no do or do not, only try

My impressions of Diablo 3

Does a new age of kings approach?

Comparing automatic poetry generators

The most fun you can have offline

Using Backbone to improve multiselects

Google+ redesigned into Facebook

What Refactoring is, and what it isn't

19 months from launch to $1,000,000,000 acquisition: Instagram