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Should You Do What You Love

Posted on 2024-10-02 by jcs

Paul Graham has another great post up. This time it’s about whether you should chose to work on what interests you. To a first approximation, it seems like a no-brainer: of course you should. But what if you want, or … Continue reading →

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Holding The Program In Your Head

Posted on 2024-09-23 by jcs

Paul Graham has a very interesting post that considers why it’s so hard for most corporations to produce good software. Actually, his post isn’t quite about that. Rather, it discusses why it’s so hard and so important for a programmer … Continue reading →

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Branch Prediction

Posted on 2024-09-10 by jcs

Here’s a very nice discussion of branch prediction from a Stack Overflow question. We graybeards and, really, just about everyone else like to pretend that all processors are still like the PDP-11. They were easy to understand and their semantics … Continue reading →

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Converting Between Miles and Kilometers

Posted on 2024-09-07 by jcs

Peteris Krumins has a nice post on using Fibonacci numbers to covert between miles and kilometers. The TL;DR is that if you take any two consecutive Fibonacci numbers, X and Y, there will be approximately Y kilometers in X miles … Continue reading →

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Ten Coding Fonts

Posted on 2024-08-26 by jcs

A perennial topic of interest to programmers is their coding font. I’ve been using Inconsolata for as long as I can remember. I adopted it when I was still a Vim user and carried it over to Emacs. In my … Continue reading →

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Nothing Today Because I’m Exhausted

Posted on 2024-08-25 by jcs

Yesterday was a lost day. I haven’t been happy with my WiFi router so I got a new one and yesterday was the day that I was going to spend an hour or so installing it and updating my network. … Continue reading →

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Marlinspike On What’s Wrong With Software Development

Posted on 2024-08-17 by jcs

Moxie Marlinspike is a legendary figure in security and software development. I last wrote about him and his fight to keep our data safe from governments and other prying eyes 9 years ago. He’s still at it. At the recent … Continue reading →

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WordStar

Posted on 2024-08-16 by jcs

Those of us of a certain age will remember WordStar. It was the first hugely popular “word processor” and was used by almost everyone who wanted to write prose of any sort. It was the default word processor in the … Continue reading →

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32TB

Posted on 2024-08-11 by jcs

A long (long) time ago when I was first adding hard drives to my systems—yes, there was a time when computers didn’t come with hard drives—the only choices available to “normal people” were 20MB or 60MB drives. That was the … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Getting Disappeared

Posted on 2024-08-02 by jcs

Hello. It’s me again, shouting into the wind and yelling at clouds. I’ve told you—warned you—over and over again to get off Google but you won’t listen. I’ve long since adopted the hard stance that I don’t care about your … Continue reading →

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