At the start of the pandemic, I had just begun a relationship with an artist who had the occasional gig doing a bit of nude live modeling. Not my ex When he invited me to join a session via zoom, I was apprehensive. Drawing has never been my strong suit. I can doodle, but I can’t draw. But hey, I thought, I’m not...

Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with...

Read on the website: Wisp is an indentation-sensitive syntax for Scheme. Its semantics are defined in terms of nested parentheses, though. But what if it was defined in other terms?

Civil War is a movie that has been on my “to watch” list since it came out this spring. Unfortunately, it wasn’t available to stream anywhere here in Switzerland, so I recently took the plunge and actually bought the movie on iTunes (something I haven't done in a very long time). But buying a movie makes you...

The way JavaScript assigns and references variables is sometimes weird, let's learn why.

No sé quién necesita escuchar esto, pero desarrollar una disciplina o formar un hábito implica disfrutar con el proceso, no solo enfocarse en el objetivo. Y disfrutar con el proceso significa aceptar tus limitaciones y perdonarte por los días en que descansas [o no cumples]. (Traducción de esta publicación en...

I have recently done some performance work and realized that reading about my experience could be entertaining. Teaching to think is just as important as teaching to code, but this is seldom done; I think something I’ve done last month is a great opportunity to draw the curtain a bit. serde is the Rust framework for...

I have an appalling memory. I also like patterns and repetition and routines…