The Post-CAP Reading List
12th Dec, 2017Eric Brewer and Daniel Abadi expand our notions of what the real trade-offs are in the CAP theorem.
The 7000 page Harry Potter book that never was
12th Dec, 2017An scientist's idea of literary criticism is different from most people's. It involves math.
GUI: Taking Lessons from Hand-Drawn Animation
21st Mar, 2017Chuck Jones inspires UI designers in this classic paper from Ungar and Change.
Early example of Duck Typing in 1991's SELF
21st Mar, 2017In 1991 Ungar and Smith wrote about the experimental programming language SELF, and in it described duck typing, callng it behaviorism
One-liner to analyze Python programs
10th Aug, 2016The great benefit of knowing the command-line is being able to write scripts to analyze scripts, all in ~1 minute.
One Parent CSS
2nd Aug, 2016How I write CSS.