A Personal Story (This is the text of an essay I read in a presentation at African Leadership University in Mauritius. Please see the video of that presentation here. For the other lectures from that trip, please see this playlist....

We took a pilgrimage to Hawaii to visit the 87-year-old spiritual teacher who transformed hippie America with ‘Be Here Now’—and whose message is now more potent than ever.

What looked like a temporary glitch has stretched into months of confusion and frustration for some members of Marriott Rewards.

Injured scooter riders are flooding US emergency rooms. Accident rates could be as high as 1,000 per month.

Facebook’s second in command told employees to examine the billionaire’s financial ties after he delivered a blistering speech about tech companies, said people with knowledge of her request.

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Download Google Container for Firefox. THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ADDON FROM MOZILLA!
It is a fork of the Facebook Container addon.

Prevent Google from tracking you around the web. The Google Container extension helps you take control and isolate your web activity…

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Openly sharing your work brings more attention to it, which is good, right? The answer, for me though, is often “it’s complicated.” This is what happened when I went to visit a giant tech company, in hopes for collaboration, but later found that they tried…

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It’s the End of the World and They Know It: How Dystopian Fiction Shapes Political Attitudes - Volume 16 Issue 4

I recently attended the Matthias Felleisen Half-Time Show, a symposium held in Boston on 3rd November in celebration of Matthias’s 60th birthday. I was honoured to be able to give a talk ther…

Scientists look around the universe and see amazing structure. There are objects and processes of fantastic complexity. Every action…

Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store

In 2010, Patrick McKenzie wrote the now-famous blog “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names”, in which he listed 40 things that were not universally true about names. Did programmers sit up, take notice and change their attitudes to names? Sadly, not…