December 2024

The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.

Free, open-source tools to protect your Mac

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

To create a bootable USB to install Windows 11 bypassing system requirements use the Rufus extended option. Here's how.

Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.

I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” …

When the Sun doesn’t shine and the wind is calm, humankind still needs power.

A comprehensive, premium course about building dynamic, fast, resilient apps with standard web components.

Can you touch your toes, get up from a chair using just one leg, hold a plank for 30 seconds? If you want to take care of your body, the first step is to take stock of it

What is it? It's a macOS utility app that gives you smooth mouse scrolling, cursor speed control, and powerful mouse/keyboard bindings. It aims to replace bulky, intrusive and resource-hungry mouse drivers like Logitech Options. It's feature-rich, lightweight, efficiency-optimized, and most importantly, privacy-safe. We're trying to meet all your 3rd-party mouse/keyboard needs on macOS. Screenshots Features…

As I prepare materials for a new university course on Propaganda and Censorship in Democracies, I am working on exercises intended to stretch - and hopefully fascinate - students. In this I am being assisted by Claude AI which acts as an unflaggingly obliging soundboard for ideas, whether in the form of inchoate hunches or…

Birmingham researchers say they have found wood burning at home is more polluting than traffic.

We advocate and build for Rails startups, and we know this tech gives teams a productivity and competitive edge. But we also know what startups struggle with the most: frontend. Let's share our silver toolkit for dealing with it!

Interactive lessons for learning Music Theory.

A modern team knowledge base for your internal documentation, product specs, support answers, meeting notes, onboarding, & more…

Run and fine-tune generative AI models with easy-to-use APIs and highly scalable infrastructure. Train & deploy models at scale on our AI Acceleration Cloud and scalable GPU clusters. Optimize performance and cost.

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

This is a rough transcription based on my notes for the sharing session I presented at the online Groove meetup in June. I've shared the slides before, but I think it's worth putting the content in writing. The full slide deck is accessible on GitHub.