I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know … Read more
One of the most freeing things I’ve ever done in my business is to stop tracking time. I used to religiously track where I spent my time when on my computer. Client work in one bucket, personal branding in another, … Read more
The End of Open Source as We Know It When a few months ago GitHub shared statistics about celebrating an enormous contribution of AI in their product metrics, completely missing the point of degraded contribution quality, we already felt that … Read more
It’s Friday at 4pm. I’ve just closed my 12th bug of the week. My brain is completely fried. And I’m staring at the bug leaderboard, genuinely sad that Monday means going back to regular work. Which is weird because I … Read more
Plus: My interview with Oscar co-founder Mario Schlosser I’m testing out putting the entire article in the email vs making you click through to my blog. I think it will be easier for you to read (let’s just hope I … Read more
2025-03-11 18:34:41 Displayed 6391 times I’ve been a good student for 5 years at a French computer school. I’ve been a good freelance developer for 20 years. I’ve used Ruby on Rails exclusively however never writing my own code always … Read more
X @X Aug 13 Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump’s Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump’s conversation on 𝕏, generating a … Read more
tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not workshop participants 😉 ), which makes this classic chart type unnecessarily unintuitive, hard to grasp, and … Read more
Tunneling is one of the many technologies that make modern civilization possible. For one, a tunnel can dramatically reduce transportation costs by shortening travel times between two points. Prior to the construction of the Holland Tunnel beneath the Hudson River … Read more
Image: Low-tech Magazine is now written and published on a 2006 ThinkPad X60s. View original image View dithered image Being an independent journalist – or an office worker if you wish – I always reasoned that I needed a decent … Read more