“How would you rate your knowledge of techonolgy X out of 10?” Is a terrible question, and here’s why. It’s entirely ambiguous, and depending on which interpretation you give, there’s really no wrong answer. On an obsessively literal level there … Read more
Click-bait title, but hear me out. TCP vs UDP So you’re reading this blog over the internet. I would wager you do a lot of things over the internet. If you’ve built an application on the internet, you’ve undoubtedly had … Read more
Explore They say, never meet your heroes. Daniel Dennett, who was exceptional in so many ways, and who died last month, was for me an exception to this rule, too. Like so many, I was first inspired by Dennett on … Read more
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Developing Aortic Stenosis due to a Bicuspid Aortic Valve This is one doctor’s experience as an explainer to friends, family and anyone who has a bicuspid aortic valve or who, for whatever reason, has developed Aortic Stenosis. Early days I … Read more
The ldd utility is more vulnerable than you think. It’s frequently used by programmers and system administrators to determine the dynamic library dependencies of executables. Sounds pretty innocent, right? Wrong! In this article I am going to show you how … Read more
I turned 40 last month and spent three weeks reading Don Quixote, so the mid-life crisis has been on my brain. “Never waste your midlife crisis.” That’s advice I heard while listening to a podcast interview with John Higgs, author of William Blake … Read more
While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms. The result: increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers and mounting trouble for the platforms themselves. Melissa Shea hires freelancers to take … Read more
When researching Phoenix Hyperspace for my highly upsetting post on the subject, it was hard to avoid news articles proclaiming that it had been sold off by Phoenix (when they gave up wholesale on their idea of making anything other … Read more
There was a time in my life twenty years ago when I was driving a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a gambler’s life, a life for someone who wanted no boss, constant movement and the thrill … Read more