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2021-05-14 Nerd Roundup

2021-05-14 Nerd Roundup

Your jetpack has finally arrived! Mach 17 airplanes, the importance of humility in programming, regex for computational biology, and yes, cool jetpacks. Lotsa fun this week on Nerd Roundup!

Daniel B. Markham

13 May 2021 · 2 min read

How To Win At Tech Publishing

How To Win At Tech Publishing

Does writing books suck? Writing overall? I've been itching to vent on this for some time. Many hard-earned life lessons ahead.

Daniel B. Markham

11 May 2021 · 9 min read

2011-05-07 Nerd Roundup

2011-05-07 Nerd Roundup

James, Bob, and the dude ... back together again. Ray guns, new flying technology, bulldozer wars, and a linux poster full of Easter eggs.

Daniel B. Markham

6 May 2021 · 2 min read

2021-04-30 Nerd Roundup

2021-04-30 Nerd Roundup

It's nerds having fun, talking about the latest technical news, but is it really?

Daniel B. Markham

29 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

MAG-Lite

MAG-Lite

People disagree about stuff. A lot of stuff. Understanding what kind of conversation you're having can lead to better disagreements and better outcomes

Daniel B. Markham

28 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

Epistemology Wars

Epistemology Wars

Seven books I've read in the last two months and the common, culturally-relevant thesis that joins all of them together.

Daniel B. Markham

27 Apr 2021 · 15 min read

The Hottest Nacho Chip Ever

The Hottest Nacho Chip Ever

What can I say? I lived. It only took about four hours for the feeling of my head being on fire to go away.

Daniel B. Markham

25 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

2021-04-23 Nerd Roundup

2021-04-23 Nerd Roundup

Butt-trumpets, AWS Lambda, quantum telescopes and talking cows. It's all part of a normal nerd roundup of tech news this week.

Daniel B. Markham

22 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

2021-04-16 Nerd Roundup

2021-04-16 Nerd Roundup

Pain, kittens, nose-hairs, nuclear rockets, drone warfare, and supercompilers

Daniel B. Markham

15 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

Personality Models, Management-By Statistic, And Better AI

Personality Models, Management-By Statistic, And Better AI

In which we get out the magic wand and begin our specification of shared language-modifying abuctive reasoning, aka "learning". This will drive architecture and code later.

Daniel B. Markham

13 Apr 2021 · 13 min read

Astronomy Pictures

Astronomy Pictures

Here's a quick video tour of 30-40 astronomy pictures I've saved recently. Some of these are incredibly beautiful.

Daniel B. Markham

12 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

2021-04-08 Nerd Roundup

2021-04-08 Nerd Roundup

Flight simulators, tax guidance for drug dealers, the Language Server Protocol, and COBOL. Also ranting.

Daniel B. Markham

9 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

Code

Is Programming Hard? How Long Is A Piece Of String?

Daniel B. Markham

7 Apr 2021 · 8 min read

2021-04-01 Nerd Roundup

2021-04-01 Nerd Roundup

Daniel B. Markham

1 Apr 2021 · 1 min read

Info-Ops 3: Introduction

Info-Ops 3: Introduction

Daniel B. Markham

29 Mar 2021 · 13 min read

2021-03 Tech Toons

2021-03 Tech Toons

Daniel B. Markham

26 Mar 2021 · 1 min read

Outlines Of A Supercompiler In F#

Outlines Of A Supercompiler In F#

Today I'll show you the outlines of the code needed to make a supercompiler work. Here's our set of microservices: (supercompilers were introduced in my last essay) The simplest supercompiler

Daniel B. Markham

23 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

Honest Microservices

Honest Microservices

My dudes. We gotta break out of this infinite loop. Future generations will thank us.

Daniel B. Markham

22 Mar 2021 · 7 min read