A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.

Share financial records so your kid can play baseball?

I've been thinking about the half-life of code. In his Software that Fits in Your Head  talk, Dan North defines the half-life of software as (I'm paraphrasing) "the amount of time required for half of an application's code to change so much that it becomes…

Myriahedral Projections: Unfolding the Earth

A JSON parser written in 6502 assembly language. Contribute to ppelleti/json65 development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to build a design system at a fast moving startup and still leverage all the benefits a design system offers.

The company supports pornography on its platform, as long as it's not exploitative.

I wanted a second display for my iMac but seeing that 1) Apple doesn’t make a reasonably priced display and 2) all 5K options look hideous (not to mention are $$$) I did what any normal person would do...and built my own. So here it is: a 5K iMac Display!

Cosmopolitan build, single file that supports 6 operating systems!
Download wasm3-cosmopolitan.com below.
Static/dynamic NoFloat modes (integer-only wasm subset)
"strace" mode (see d_m3En...

In the early 2000s social media sites like Facebook and Twitter weren’t commonplace yet. Even text messages, at ten cents each, were something to be rationed. For many teenagers the primary means of communication outside school was AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).…

It took scientists 375 years to discover the eighth continent of the world, which had been hiding in plain sight all along. But mysteries still remain.

Many environmentalists have opposed nuclear power, citing its dangers and the difficulty of disposing of its radioactive waste. But a Pulitzer Prize-winning author argues that nuclear is safer than most energy sources and is needed if the world hopes to radically…

Meltano is an open source data movement tool built for data engineers that gives them complete control and visibility of their pipelines.