The trick to understanding awk in all its terse glory is to understand its defaults. Most solutions you see in the wild are a clever symphony of awk defaults stacked on top of each other. In this post, I break down one of the most popular one-liners which…

Despite its ‘hellish’ environment, scientists argue there are good reasons to focus on ‘Earth’s sister’

When I joined Yahoo In 2008, I received a small number of options. I don’t remember how many–it was very few–but I do know my strike price was roughly $16. I don’t remember that because my strike price was particularly lucrative, but rather because some of…

With the new year upon us, I decided it was time to do something ambitious for my Open Source project. This is where I normally quip about never mentioning my project before, even though I literall…

Meet the Subcontrabassoon!

Documents show that in the '60s, the sugar industry funded Harvard researchers who, examining risk factors of heart disease, dismissed concerns about sugar and doubled down on the dangers of fat.

A conversation with Jeremi Gosney

The British pound briefly plunged 4% to a record low against the dollar.

Their drinking habits have seen them derided as ‘generation sensible’, but this overlooks the complex and nuanced reasons people are turning their back on alcohol, writes Eve Upton-Clark.

No art. No statement. Just money.

Guitar chord diagrams for a whole lot of popular chords at different positions on the guitar fretboard. The chord diagrams show finger positions.

A simple command for columnizing lists.

After ordering Apple Watch Ultra on the launch day, I started to get doubts about whether it would live up to the promise of being a great…

Run programs in the Emacs buffer holding their source, seeing their output inline, interactively. - darius/halp

Free, open-source tools to protect your Mac