The last company I worked for was a mid-stage startup with growing pains. What had started out as a nimble organization able to create impressive software now felt stuck. Everything was high priority, nothing ever seemed to get completed, morale … Read more
on terminal control ʞ / essays / (but were afraid to ask) by Lexi Summer Hale so here’s a short tutorial on ansi escape codes and terminal control, because you philistines won’t stop using ncurses and oh my god WHY … Read more
Do you keep seeing mentions of psychedelics everywhere you look? Does the entire world suddenly seem alive with studies of magic mushrooms, LSD, and MDMA? Does it seem like huge numbers of scientists are telling you the cure for anxiety, … Read more
I have a vehement dislike for misleading advertising. We see it every day; weight loss pills, make money fast schemes and if you travel in the same circles I do, claims that extended validation (EV) certificates actually do something useful: … Read more
QUIC march Security researchers have only just gotten their teeth into HTTP/2, but the movers and shakers of the web are already spinning out an update: HTTP/3. The technology offers performance gains and security benefits, but only if we get … Read more
You can sorta think of this post as part 2 of my “Everything is shiny rant”. While standard specular lighting is pretty common in games, one effect that we rarely see in games is proper fresnel. Hopefully, you know what … Read more
One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it … Read more
In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several … Read more
You’re a member of a team that is part of a large organization. Welcome! This post is intended to help you navigate your environment. If you’re fresh out of school, or if you haven’t worked in a large organization before, … Read more
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