Writing What changes when a tool doesn’t have to pay for itself October 5, 2026 3 minute read Years ago, if an app annoyed me, I shrugged and dealt with it. I could sometimes have fixed it or built my … Read more
I’ll be honest – my first encounter with Java in 1999 wasn’t love at first sight. It was during a university distributed systems course, and coming from a background in assembler and C, Java felt bloated, slow, and frankly untrustworthy. … Read more
Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government supported space exploration and technology development program to safeguard US interests in space. NASA embodies … Read more
Archives Categories Blogroll Posted on 24 February 2025 in Blogkeeping My post about blogging as writing the tutorial that you wished you’d found really took off on Hacker News. There were a lot of excellent comments, but one thing kept … Read more
One of Stanisław Lem’s stories, The Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, begins with a strange phenomenon that turns all written materials into dust. While this is science fiction, something similar happens in our digital world. If you publish something online, … Read more
Crypto exchange FTX is seeing millions of dollars flow out of its exchange with early reports of some user account balances being completely empty. So far, over $400 million has been transferred to a single wallet address. The wallet has acquired … Read more
Key Points The Ronin bridge has been exploited for 173,600 Ethereum and 25.5M USDC. The Ronin bridge and Katana Dex have been halted. We are working with law enforcement officials, forensic cryptographers, and our investors to make sure all funds … Read more
Introduction I don’t know how to introduce this post other than the question in the title: is it even worth working on Free and Open Source Software anymore? I have been asking myself this for the past week or two, … Read more
Welcome, dear reader! If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of the many people who find themselves wondering how much of what they’ve heard about PHP (a lot of which isn’t super positive, I’m sure) is still relevant today. Is … Read more
