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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…

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The hotel chain says details of up to 500 million guests may have been accessed in a database breach.

Embedded Go Database, the fast alternative to SQLite, gorm, etc. - objectbox/objectbox-go

Some researchers are using a complexity framework thought to be purely theoretical to understand evolutionary dynamics in biological and computational systems.

DOES18 Las Vegas — Leading companies such as Google, PagerDuty, and Atlassian have developed successful major incident management practices based on the Incident Command System (ICS), which was first developed by fire departments. We can learn from these…

I never thought about patents much. I just wanted to make stuff and share it with others.  Then one day someone else patented my work.