One bad thing about archeologists is that some of the successful ones get a big head. People used to think the Olmecs, who made these colossal stone heads, were contemporary with the Mayans. But in 1939, an archaeologist couple, Marion … Read more
By Deane Barker • August 5, 2025 • I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic … Read more
Sell a book in your brick & mortar store. Your point of sales processes the transaction and updates the inventory. Bookhead downloads your inventory from your point of sales and enhances the inventory with bibliographic data, then dispatches your products … Read more
Source xkcd. Image licensed under CC-BY-NC. On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (e.g. “October 14th”) in the Google Ngrams … Read more
Explore Today more than 55 million people around the world have Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, which ravage the minds of those who suffer from them and have devastating impacts on their family members. In spite of decades of research, … Read more
December 12, 2024 Jujutsu is a new version control system that seems pretty nice! The first few times I tried it I bounced off the docs, which to my taste has too much detail up front before I got the … Read more
Adam Busiakiewicz A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII – hanging in a West Midland council hall – to be identified as a famous missing artwork. Adam Busiakiewicz, … Read more
New Monetization Models Unlocks new revenue streams by enabling micropayments, pay-per-use and granular access control models. Open and Extensible L402’s open protocol encourages innovation and wide adoption across industries, fostering a thriving ecosystem of applications and services. Language agnostic L402’s … Read more
A (directed) graph is a set of nodes, connected by arrows (edges). The nodes and edges may contain data. Here are some graphs: All graphs made with graphviz (source) Graphs are ubiquitous in software engineering: Package dependencies form directed graphs, … Read more
A Cautionary Tale about Too Much Siloing and Not Enough Trust Credit: Bob Cuthill via Getty Images I had my suspicions that something was terribly wrong with how our development team was organized, but I didn’t really put it all … Read more