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With just weeks to go until the first event of the year that’s expected to bring a new iPhone SE and iPad Air, rumors are already swirling about what Apple has planned for the rest of 2022. And it’s looking … Read more

Computers would be so much better if they never had to deal with users, amirite?!!? I remember, years ago, working on a mobile web service which had a URl bar – so users could tap in bbc.co.uk on their T9 … Read more

The rain pattered lightly on the harbour of the Belgian port city of Ghent when, on 21 June 2021, a team of professional divers slipped below the surface into the emerald murk. The Brazilian tanker, heavy with fruit juice bound … Read more

Every software engineer and IT person should do a stint in consulting. I’m not talking about becoming one of those contractors who are billed out by their companies as “consultants” but are really just serial hired hands. I’m referring to … Read more

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m alternating between working on my mod Remako and doing some new stuff with my YouTube channel. Below you’ll find that first video. I hope you like it? The Game Boy Advance is … Read more

Mathematician: That depends on what you mean by “universe.”  Here’s a framing: A circle of radius R centered at a point P is the set of all points in the plane with distance R from P.  The diameter D of … Read more

Systems thinking is a way of viewing complicated networks in reality in terms of the relationships between the parts and the whole. It is about thinking holistically about such relationships so as to (1) truly understand how they work and … Read more

In 2018, 857 people on bikes were killed by drivers in the U.S. It was the deadliest year for cyclists and pedestrians on American roads since 1990. And it wasn’t an anomaly—cycling fatalities have been on the rise since 2010, … Read more