Being able to accurately determine your location anywhere on the planet is a useful technological trick. But when tracking isn’t done by you, but to you—without your knowledge or consent—it’s a

We are told "the old ones are the best ones" – and some of the oldest jokes in history are still in use today. It’s worth going back a few thousand years to find out why.

For over a year now I've been working on daedalOS, my desktop environment in the browser. At the...

Open source Dropbox client for macOS and Linux.

ar5iv offers a modern web view for arXiv's preprints. An open community resource, on a quest to a full collection of high-quality documents.

In October 2021, I ran a concierge search engine called Genius Search. That’s a fancy way of saying that I asked my friends to pay me $10/month to research an unlimited number of open-ended questions. I would write and send them a summary of each topic as…

Don't like a bad tweet? Block the tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it—in one click.

The OS I learned to program on meets the language I helped create.

A site about mathematician, magician, musician and author Raymond M. Smullyan (1919 – 2017).

Large study hints that taking metformin before conception could raise risk of birth defects

We've been making compromises to the limits of fossil fuels for so long that we've forgotten they're compromises.

Just one communications network using the technology could result in hundreds of metric tons of mercury released into the upper atmosphere.

This post has nothing to do with JIT-like techniques for patching machine code on the fly (though they are cool!).
Instead, it describes a cute/horrible trick/hack you can use to generate source code if you are not a huge fan of macros.
The final technique…