The mythical year experience.
do you have 12 years of experience or do you have 12 iterations of 1 year of experience?
Kunstwerke mit LEGO-Steinen.
Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century.
I have created a tool called jc that converts the output of dozens of GNU and non-GNU commands and configuration files to JSON. Instead of everyone needing to create their own custom parsers for these common utilities and files, jc acts as a central clearinghouse of parsing libraries that just need to be written once and can be used by everyone.
Why do some get hooked on pandemic terror and phobic energy?
‘(…) You don’t know that every privilege in your life and every thought in your mind depends on the ability of the two great powers to hang a threat over the planet?’
‘That’s an amazing thing to say.’
‘And you don’t know that once this threat begins to fade? … You’re the lost man of history.’
Patterns in confusing explanations.
I came up with a list of 13 patterns that make explanations hard for me to understand. For each pattern I’ll also explain what I like to do instead to avoid the issue.
Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows.
I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It's a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window. But it has the magic property that if you shine a flashlight on it, it forms an image.
If you’ve worked in a software company you also know that command and control is the status quo, even when they’ve wrapped it in an ‘agile’ flag. They’ve just gotten better at masking it with brainstorming meetings, discussion formats, Slack emoticons, performative ‘wokeness’ (that never leads to actual ‘woke’ policies) and chirpy HR lackeys. The mask is just a mask.
The Gravitricity system…
…uses weight configurations totalling up to 12,000 tonnes in a deep shaft, suspended by a number of cables, each of which is engaged with an electric winch capable of lifting its share of the weight. Electricity is stored in the form of potential energy by raising the weights. Power is then generated by lowering the weights to turn a generator.
All Time Worldwide Box Office for R Movies.
159 Pulp Fiction
168 Braveheart
175 JFK