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Yup, the Ian Knot and the Secure Knot ( https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm ) have taken over my household. The latter is particularly good for kids, who often learn th…

Yes, Nix is totally viable. Steep learning curve, but many benefits.

Presumably etags/gtags/hasktags etc., ie. having built a TAGS database for such a helper program, you can use it in an editor to jump from a field name to its definition. That woul…

I wrote a simple solution for this which is used in production at several businesses now: https://github.com/purcell/postgresql-migrations/

You can control which categories of ads will be displayed in your Adsense account settings. It shouldn't be necessary in a civilised world, of course, but there you go.

Author here. I answered this and other questions in discussions on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8ye1h0/explaining_...

Author here. The blog is for my personal brand, because I often work independently, but I was employed full-time as lead architect for this venture.

Author here - thanks very much. That was what I was going for.

Check to see if the battery is swollen -- that happened a lot with those machines, and typically interfered with the trackpad click.

I had the Skerton. The Porlex Mini is better in every way.

Most people tend to automatically reflect back at others the emotions projected towards them: someone gets angry at you, and you get angry right back at him. Being able to notice t…

Rewritten, not knowing anything more about you than the above: - Enthusiastic self-taught hacker with 13 years of experience. Currently seeking work in the IT Sec field: drop me an…

A much more extensive article about this caper was published in Wired in 2012: http://www.wired.com/2012/01/ff_ux/all/1

SEEKING WORK - Remote / Travel possible Location: UK Hugely experienced veteran of top consultancies like ThoughtWorks and many web start-ups in hands-on technical positions up to …

This might indeed be a problem for Irish nationals, just as the "IR35" rules affect UK contractors working through limited companies, but I can't imagine that a non-national workin…

Mithril is a tremendous little framework, and Leo has done an exemplary job of writing it, documenting it and blogging about usage patterns and tricks. While declining frequent req…

I'd say the worst case is that it might encourage people to drive faster , if they assume that the app will warn them of speed traps.

It does: it links to the "multiple gunshot suicide" page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide

In my experience, stretches and foam roller are both ways to alleviate the discomfort, but they don't fix the underlying problem, which is related to running form and specific musc…

Bravo! This is the kind of uniquely developer-oriented innovation I've come to expect from Stripe. Following an export, it'd be nice to have access to a trickle-feed of incremental…

I believe the point is that the neural net will still have preconceptions -- but the random wiring just means you've chosen to not see what they are.

Yes indeed, but with light and ultralight variants. A day later, and I'm still enjoying Input a lot.

Just the Mono family alone is excellent. There are a number of different weights available, each with italic and bold variants, and the repertoire of glyphs is extensive. I enjoy c…

There's literally a single person who adjusts the whole power grid according to second-by-second fluctuations in power which result from half the nation boiling water for tea after…

> back in the day there were two big software essayists - PG and Joel Don't forget Philip Greenspun!