There is a concept called separation of concerns in software development. The main idea is designing the system (or code) by keeping the different sets of information away from each other to understand better, refactor, or delete quickly when the time comes. When the separation is blurry, the components become...

If you want to change how you look at time, break it down. A lifetime is inconcievable for a human being, a year seems like a long time, and a week (especially when we’re waiting for something) can feel as long as that year. We don’t get to decide what happens tomorrow. You can plan, but plans change in an instant,...

Recently I revamped my home internet, and (hopefully) temporarily ended up with a modem that needs to be power cycled from time to time. We’re working on getting it fixed, but in the meantime I needed a solution for automated power cycling. There are various ways to turn the power off or on from a Linux computer,...

Zeynep Tufekci: There is a Turkish saying for times like these, when we can see a light at the end of the tunnel: “Time passes quickly if we can count the days until the end.” We are no longer in the open-ended, dreadful period of spring 2020, when we did not know if we’d even have a vaccine, whether any...