Me: I want to have more friends Tech companies:

You know, life used to be more fun in the 1930s

My wife asked me some time ago to build an automated door opener / closer for the coop, and needless to say, our design firm takes this very seriously

The joys of rural living

Boss: hey Bob, our users are asking for an API to determine if a video can be played in the browser. Bob: yeah, I get it, but this is really complica -- Boss: go on now, git! You'll figure it out. Bob: [muttering to himself]

The latest

I'm sorry folks, the spec made it clear

An update on the chicken coop. Doors and windows by my wife (there's another window on the back, and a chicken door inside).

A slightly unhinged calculator fact: in the golden era of electronic calculators, some Japanese shopkeepers were reluctant to trust the newfangled device, so Sharp made a line of combination calculator / abacus devices. Here's a photo, next to some other stuff I own.

An update on an update on the chicken coop

I don't know where you folks get your non-orientable manifolds, but the experience of ordering from Cliff Stoll at kleinbottle.com is second to none

I finally decided to bite the bullet

An update on chickens

What a coincidence, I have the same interests

I found a motto for my Substack

We're at the "pivot to a social network" stage in the development of AGI

A book on the philosophy of HN is long overdue

Stand for what you believe in

A reassuring message from the 401k plan

Et tu, clang?

Look GCC, I don't think I'm being unreasonable here

A novel way to implement loops: godbolt.org/z/164jvGz1b

"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't."

I don't talk about it often, but as a side project, I run a charity that solves captchas for the elderly and the infirm

I've been working in cybersecurity for over 25 years. Here are my key insights.

Elkpocalypse in the driveway today

Every time you deploy an "application firewall" to production, an angel loses its wings