I had a breakthrough this past Thanksgiving: I realized that I had been brainwashed. I was raised believing that Christmas music and the Christmas tree needed to wait until after Thanksgiving was over. “Thanksgiving needs space!” they said. “One holiday at a time!” they shouted. After all, Bing Crosby never…

Regardless of how great you think my GitHub is, the fact that I know the basics of “for loops” puts me in a class of computer savvy beyond the average Internet user. …

As Sammy L once said back in ‘93: hold on to your butts. I hope you clicked this link looking for CONTENT because I’m about to deliver on a scale hitherto undreamt. I was reading about randomness the other day (like one does), when I stumbled upon the claim that…

I stumbled on this account of Doug McIlroy displaying his “old Unix hands” (you may need to refresh a few times to load), and I’m left in awe. Follow along on this tale. It’s a story about Donald Knuth, Professor Emeritus at “Stanford” (sounds made up), you may know him…

You’re here for the motherflipping content and today I’m going to deliver at a quality bar not seen since that one time Drake played Fortnite with Ninja. From approximately 15 years ago, in no particular order, crudely drawn math comics:

When most programmers hear of systems where “failure is not an option”, they think of space shuttles or self-driving cars. …

I told someone recently that I was just a “startup kind of guy.” Yes, it’s a bit of a cringe-worthy line and I regret saying it. Worse — the thought that perhaps it really is true, in which case I regret being the kind of guy about which such a…

Linus Torvalds has changed the world twice now, dangit, which is 0 (±2 due to rounding errors) more times than I have changed it. His first world-changing contribution was of course, Linux, and his second was git. Linux is Torvalds’ My Antonia — widely regarded as his most significant contribution…

I may have mentioned this before but nbd I’m a professional educator now, in a CS masters program, and thus have transcended you pl3bs and all your earthly cares. …