When I started building CSV Unwrap, I wasn’t particularly worried about parsing CSV files. That’s a solved problem. What interested me was something else. Could software look at an unfamiliar dataset and help explain what you’re actually looking at? Not … Read more
Early in my career, I had the opportunity to listen to a talk by Bill Howell on “managing your manager”. I don’t recall much about the talk, but one item that stuck with me was his advice, “Never argue with … Read more
They want your face. It will be called safety. Verification. Age assurance. A small step to protect children. But strip the language away and the demand is plain: before you may speak, post, or read, you must first prove who … Read more
Every year someone says that this is the year of the Linux desktop. It is never the year of the Linux desktop. There are many reasons for this. Drivers. Games. Adobe. Microsoft Office. Battery life. The thing where you close … Read more
I’ve been a .com purist for over two decades of building. Once, I broke that rule and bought a .online TLD for a small project. This is the story of how it went up in flames. Update: Within 40 minutes … Read more
Undoubtedly you have all seen photographs of people on TV and online who have been blurred to hide faces. For example, here’s one of Bill Gates: Adapted from the Wikimedia Commons For the most part this is all fine with … Read more
Never write your own date parsing library. Never. No exceptions. Never have I ever… So… I’ve written my own date parsing library. Why? Our story begins seven years ago in the year 2018. I made the very sensible choice to … Read more
CPS, or continuation-passing style, is an intermediate representation for programs, particularly functional programs. It’s used in compilers for languages such as SML and Scheme. In CPS, there are two rules: first, that function/operator arguments must always be trivial; second, that … Read more
An invisible desktop application that will help you pass your technical interviews. Interview.Coder.Launches.mp4 Invisibility Compatibility The application is invisible to: Zoom versions below 6.1.6 (inclusive) All browser-based screen recording software All versions of Discord Mac OS screenshot functionality (Command + … Read more
I live in San Francisco, and I don’t own a car. This means that I walk or take public transit nearly everywhere that I go. There’s a lot of ways to find out when the next bus/train/tram/trolleybus/cable car/ferry is stopping … Read more