INTRO A few years ago, I got the opportunity to architect and code the fire propagation system in Far Cry 2. At that time, it was a gigantic task and it scared the hell out of me. Luckily, it turned out well enough. With the upcoming Far Cry 3, several people…

A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.

This year was unlike anything any of us has experienced before. The global pandemic affected how we learn, connect with others, work, play, shop, and more. It affected directly or ...

The pursuit of minimizing my commute to work led me to move into an apartment with no temperature control. Given how common this is for…

i3 is a tiling window manager with clean, readable and documented code, featuring extended Xinerama support, usage of libxcb instead of xlib and several improvements over wmii

This repo is the official home of .NET on GitHub. It's a great starting point to find many .NET OSS projects from Microsoft and the community, including many that are part of the .NET Found...

When Celso Silva Junior, a Ph.D. candidate at the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE), stepped back from his recently completed map of Brazil’s secondary forests, he was surprised by the sheer quantity that had grown back since the 1980s. About…

Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case for the wealthy to bear more of the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.

This post has been languishing in my drafts folder for about a decade. It has recently become relevant again. When I was at Vodafone, selling ringtones was our top priority. They cost almost nothin…

On November 26, version 6.1 of GNU Octave, a language and
environment for numerical computing, was released. There are several new
features and enhancements in this release, including improvements to
graphics output, better communication with web services…

On the front lines of the pallet wars

Something was decimating the salmon that had been restored to creeks around Puget Sound.

Apple’s new iOS 14 privacy changes arrive soon

Today we announce $40M in new funding to help everyone build the next web.

The photographer, chef, scientist and author Nathan Myhrvold is a former Microsoft technology leader. He draws on his physicist training...