In the past few years, this little car part has sparked a massive crime wave. It has a lot to do with the booming market for precious metals.

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

He didn’t make a penny.

This document describes a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes over components of an HTTP message. This mechanism supports use cases where the full HTTP message may not be known to the signer,…

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved in the body’s system for reward and pleasure. A recent trend has people avoiding stimulating activities in the belief that doing so allows the body to rese...

Native-like Navigation for Web apps

I moderate /r/kafka and people often mistake for a subreddit about the programming language. Our users have almost spontaneously developed their own way for dealing with this confusion. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

The nice thing about technological progress is that even once innovative technologies are considered outdated at some point. And outdated technology is cheap technology. So it comes that one can buy the first generation of digital xray image sensors on ebay…

The high-performance gaming champ

The volcanic island of Jeju is a wild paradise home to haenyeo, the women of the sea. Follow us as we join the free divers on a treasure hunt along its winding coast.

Alan Kay talk at Alex' class on Apr 07th, '16.

Git ls-files is up to 5 times faster than fd or find in this benchmark, but why?

You might have heard people say that functional programming is more academic, and real engineering is done in imperative style. I’m going to show you that real engineering is functional, and …