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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 2011

Poking a sleeping giant

October 2011

Beardvember. DOIT!

Making a Möbius cake

Notebook fetishism

"Startup rollercoaster" isn't even the half of it

The strange world of getting user data onto a piece of paper

#WebcampLj was bitchin'

postme.me - idea to sales in 3 days

Weird feeds

A for loop is not a for loop is not a for loop

Programmers are fucking lazy

Firefox's "funny" css3 image scaling quirk

Economy next on the noobs' list of things to ruin?

A technical post about cake

What are you proud of?

ml-class.org vs. real world ML class

Crowdsourcing elegance

Functional isn't always better

Steve Jobs

Quick and easy way to getting burned by nginx

I suck at [formal] education or does education suck?

Collect your data carefully, a lesson

September 2011

I want to analyze your blog

Measuring vocabulary richness with python

NaN does not equal NaN

The end of my internet diet experiment

#Geeksonwater

Spending money online is crazy hard!

Calorie counting is silly

Mac OS X Lion and Wi-Fi