Picture this: it’s a work day at an enterprise payments processing company, and there is a critical data engineering task that needs to be completed. In this case, I’m the data engineer who needs to finish the task, but I … Read more
Assumed Audience: People who are interested in working effectively, particularly with an eye to keeping track of accomplishments, building “brag docs,” etc. Over the past year or so, I have transitioned my note-taking out of Bear and into Obsidian. The … Read more
Designing a system to shutdown gracefully can be tricky. In an ideal world, every service would be managed by a systemd unit. ExecStart would start a process that handles SIGTERM by stopping itself and an ExecStop would inform the process … Read more
[embedded content][embedded content] The oldest known writing systems first emerged in Mesopotamia, between 3400 and 3100 BC, and Egypt, around 3250 BC. The Latin alphabet, which I’m using to write this post and you’re using to read it, gradually took … Read more
11 years ago to the day, I was at a tech conference. It was 3 year after the iPhone had launched its app SDK. Those of us who had been in the mobile game a while had already spent years … Read more
May 5, 2004Volume 2, issue 2 PDF Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard ANNA PATTERSON, STANFORD UNIVERSITY Big or small, proprietary or open source, Web or intranet, it’s a tough job. There must be 4,000 programmers typing … Read more
Joshua Stutter PhD researcher, University of Glasgow. ‘A Modern Study of Thirteenth–Century Organa and Motet: The Clausula as Fundamental Unit’ Writing my PhD using groff Thu Jul 21 2022 16:50:00 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time) In this blog post: thoughts on … Read more
Two problems with writing: first, it looks easy because it uses the same symbols of speech; second, everyone who was taught the alphabet and basic sentence structures can produce something similar to writing when it’s not. Writers, however, know it’s … Read more
2022-06-20 My advice to anyone who writes: Try writing one sentence per line. I’ve been doing it for twenty years, and it improved my writing more than anything else. New sentence? Hit [Enter]. New line. Not publishing one sentence per … Read more