Today I remembered a funny situation from where I was living in London in mid 2000s for a little while. I had just visited a heavy metal pub in Soho after work (I used to work in Covent Garden as a bartender during that… · had, woman, london, work, haircut

Hey there, fellow programmer! Picture this: It’s 2025, and you’re knee-deep in code, building the next big AI project. You’re pumped about the potential to revolutionize industries, but then you pause. Is my code fair?… · 2025, world, google, code, building

A while back, I wrote a little Go wrapper library around the dmenu library and called it go-dmenu but then realized that without the hyphen the ambiguity between god-menu and go-dmenu was sort of delicious so I went with… · dmenu, list, menu, selection, thing

I’m a dead end web developer and a (non)writer. I studied literature, Finnish language and philosophy. Now I type code for money and words for fun. And sometimes the other way around. I’m a Chief of Theory. I understand… · dead, end, web, developer, non

Haskell and other things that interest me

i’m currently: @ the alan turing institute supporting the turing way @ school of commons gathering poetic tactics to counter extraction train attention @ fosdem co-organising the open research devroom @ school for poetic… · turing, school, poetic, currently, alan

A while back, I wrote a little Go wrapper library around the dmenu library and called it go-dmenu but then realized that without the hyphen the ambiguity between god-menu and go-dmenu was sort of delicious so I went with… · dmenu, list, menu, selection, thing

I'm currently reading Practical Foundations for Programming Languages by Robert Harper and Certified Programming with Dependent Types by Adam Chlipala. · programming, currently, reading, practical, foundations

I made a new release of my “morse-pro” Javascript library yesterday. There was no particular reason to make a release now except that I had some free time, it’s been too long coming and if I wait until it is “ready” then… · release, api, school, blazer, make

Recently had a broseph tell me ‘Bro, Fr Fr do you even know how Async/Await works! Ya gotta use Promises.’ Honestly that bothered me more than a perky... In a world where developers battle the relentless forces of… · recently, had, broseph, tell, bro

Hi! I am Davide, I build stuff for the internet. I spend my days switching between my family, cycling and writing Clojure · davide, build, stuff, internet, spend

It took me over half a decade to realize that I lived at the intersection of programming and writing.

Blog all about programming, mostly in Haskell since 2008 · blog, programming, mostly, haskell, since

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague after my last post, about whether it was possible to get the best of both worlds, or if any new tool would necessarily make you dumber. And I had to stop and think –… · like, had, engineers, interesting, post

We're currently working on something awesome_ · currently, working, something, awesome

Hi everyone, long time no see! Sorry I’ve been bad at keeping the site up to date- the Filkblog kind of fell by the wayside due to, well… -gestures at the general state of the world- I’m going through the backlog now… · long, sorry, date, well, announcements

I have carved out a small slice of the great Intarwebs to share with you my goings on. It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? Anyway, this post is about C++ and how nothing ever goes wrong with it, ever. I was building a… · event, students, anyway, post, value

Because every now & again I have flashes of brilliance. These have been elevated to legendary proportions by my teamies & somehow I became known as a Genius. As you can see, I've downplayed it because I can't stand the pressure of it being a permanent condition!!

I almost missed this great post by Una Kravets on the upcoming changes to the <select> element where soon we’ll be able to customize it to our heart’s content without the need to hack things together. Una shows how we’ll… · select, popover, set, una, changes

Since obsessively underlining passages in a tattered copy of Goodbye to Berlin hasn't proven to be the uplifting diversion I was hoping for, I resolved to bash my head against some really complicated scala code that I'm… · since, some, code, reasonable, time

Has a programmer Buddha-nature or not? Has a programmer Buddha-nature or not? · programmer, buddha, nature

Summary: I joined Meta 2.5 years ago to work on build systems. I’m enjoying it. I joined Meta over two years ago when an opportunity arose to work on build systems full time. I started the Shake build system at Standard… · build, meta, buck, systems, shake

Welcome to sheltered harbor in this chaotic sea of electrons! Here I wax poetic on projects, endeavors, discoveries, and miscellaneous musings that pique my interest.. I’m an enthusiast of networking, virtualization… · welcome, sheltered, harbor, chaotic, sea

Tired: Hours of thrashing around with FUSE and not making things work.Wired: AnyLinuxFS. That’s… that’s it. That’s the post. Hardly seems worth the wait, does it? I mean, we’d probably all assumed this site was… · work, wait, build, dark, elf

Earlier this week I had the opportunity to speak at the Auckland JuniorDev meetup where I presented 10 Things I wished I knew about architecture earlier in my career (slides). I’m a bit rubbish with speaker notes (e.g. I… · earlier, had, architecture, career, recommendations

Join me in programming&#x2F;coding, cooking, and controlled rotting of food. I&#39;m a developer who&#39;s always trying to learn more; I hope that this blog helps reinforce my own knowledge, and help others in t

Time for another of my irregular (*in more ways than one) posts on the world of communications: Blue Sky? Are We Doing This Again? There was a time when it… Five-ish things for professional communicators right now… Are… · time, posts, doing, five, things

I’m interested in learning about languages, programming or otherwise & exploring the streets of NYC with a 📷 in hand. I enjoy reading, hacking together ✨non-utilitarian✨ software and building mechanical keyboards I’m… · interested, learning, languages, programming, otherwise

I’ve always been a curious mind and I always wanted to explore new things related to programming. I already explored a couple of programming languages but I'm always curious to learn more. This blog post will be split… · always, curious, programming, been, mind

By Anyone, I mean people I know? I am so out of practice with blogging and podcasting. I am sure that there is another way people communicate ideas and thoughts now. I am going through some stuff right now and would like… · people, community, studio, she, some

by the way, it's really Michael, not 'Mikey' :-) page last updated: Sat Jan 23, 2016 p.s. I'm only just getting started here... so there's not a lot to see right now! More in February. · way, really, michael, mikey, page

Wherein we review the code from our last episide, fix some bugs, alleviate some code smells, refactor some things to improve clarity and reduce redundancy, and introduce the concept of failed board parsing with error… · some, code, wherein, review, last

"How did you figure out how to do that?" "You learned to program by READING THE HELP??" Borland had really great help docs :) · help, settings, did, had, git

I've tried to outline a framework for human-style intelligence before, and while discovering some cool ideas in the process, I doubt I can continue much further on that track without stepping on other people's ideas… · intelligence, some, post, api, https

in the meantime, here's some of mine in the meantime, here's some of mine postsfueled by coffee. I dream of owning a cafe/co-working space · meantime, here, some, mine, postsfueled

Hi! I am the Architect. I am curious. I like to know what other people are doing, and I ask a lot of questions. As a kid, I was always asking my parents and teachers, Why? Why? Why? My favorite classes in school were… · see, like, favorite, draw, building

I just gave a talk at Web Directions Developer Summit and as part of that needed to find out statistics around open source design systems. As with many things this spiralled a bit and ended up in a new project being… · design, project, gave, talk, web

Hi, I am Mr. Paradox. I don’t like to speak much. I think I am always in that loop of learning & building. That’s the best way I can describ

That's great, but you did not mention nvidia... That's great, but you did not mention nvidia... · great, did, mention, nvidia

Hey there, fellow tech enthusiasts! Today, I’m absolutely buzzing about something that’s been tickling my geeky neurons for a while now: the rise of Artificial Intelligence in the realm of creative arts. We’re talking… · creative, there, music, like, something

At the recent GOTO conferences in Copenhagen and Aarhus, I had the opportunity to have an extended set of conversations with Martin Fowler about an idea he has been turning over recently in his head — “sacrificial… · building, opportunity, been, should, link

i don't maintain that many projects in fact, this site is mostly used for testing stupid little projects however, once in a blue moon i come up with a good idea · projects, don, maintain, many, fact

This won’t be a long post, I promise. I decided to post more often, and I realized my posts require exponentially long time to write, correct, and more importantly convince myself they’re good enough and won’t contain… · many, long, post, recently, functions

Things I’m currently working on: Want to become a better programmer? Join the Recurse Center! Things I’m currently working on: · things, currently, working, want, become

Just a guy fixing and creating bugs worldwide Some weeks ago I finished a online course about C++. I've already programmed in the language but I decided to take the course to refresh my skills and have some projects in… · some, course, decided, article, writing

Being an AI evolutionist rather than revolutionist, I have refrained myself from posting too much about AI - a lot of people are doing so by the way, I very much doubt you’re missing my opinion. But, I recently got back… · should, many, much, lot, people

; I shared my thoughts on creativity, writing as practice, and being human in light of AI and other developments on the Writers in Tech podcast ; My latest post on Medium talks about algorithms and the power of… · writing, post, shared, thoughts, creativity

Apparently, if you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your site, you launched too late. So I'm launching this as I build it, and I'm mortified that you're seeing it. Please, avert your eyes. So this is actually… · version, first, site, actually, old

An attempt at a blog by someone who thinks Haskell is cool. · attempt, blog, someone, thinks, haskell

I’ve never seen such a obsequious embrace of technology by “geeks” as I have with AI. It feels like the entire tech world suddenly woke up one day and decided that not only should AI be the answer to everything, but that… · there, like, tech, everyone, folks