Introduction How we write and think about CSS has changed significantly since the web’s beginning. We’ve come a long way from table-based layouts, to responsive web design, and now into a new era of adaptive layouts powered by modern CSS … Read more
There’s a buzz of excitement around data engineering right now, and for a good reason. Since its inception, there has been no slowdown in the data engineering field. New technologies and concepts are appearing particularly fast lately. As we near … Read more
Over the years, web pages became more complex. Some of them were even applications in their own right. More visual media was displayed and the volume and size of scripts adding interactivity also increased. Much more data was transmitted over … Read more
I feel like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland who is always short on time… Alice in Wonderland (1951 film) Due to that, I may or may not be able to pack together a second Zen 4 part, that will … Read more
This paper presents a personal view of the evolution of six generations of Smalltalk in which the author played a part, starting with Smalltalk-72 and progressing through Smalltalk-80 to Squeak and Etoys. It describes the forces that brought each generation … Read more
At Mixpanel, we’ve had our ups and downs with the cloud. We moved off the cloud back in 2011 to dedicated hardware deployed on Softlayer. Although we got rid of some of the noisy neighbor problems we saw on Rackspace, … Read more
The previous post showed that the bits of prime powers look kinda chaotic. When you plot them, they form a triangular shape because the size of the numbers is growing. The numbers are growing geometrically, so their binary representations are … Read more
Characters that have been popular across all six cohorts conform to what we consider typical feminine and masculine traits. Sons should be “open” and “forthright” (明, ming2), “ambitious” (志, zhi4), and “cultured” (文, wen2). Daughters, on the other hand, ought … Read more