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A couple of people contacted me with feedback about the SIMD implementation we used to find newlines in the billion-row file. One suggested a possible bug (shock!) and one suggested a way that might be more efficient. We'll take a look...
CSS is hard and it should be hard. For good reason: “CSS isn’t just a complex language, it’s one of the most advanced graphics, layout, and typesetting languages available in computing. The deskilling of web dev is harming the product...
He’s almost done, big day today then only 6 weeks left then it’s time for school! Wild. Time flies and all that, and I think we’ve done a good job so far. Our boy is smart, thoughtful/sensitive, strong and healthy. He prefers outdoors to...
2019 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, third in the Jack Logan series. Women are being murdered by an unusually competent killer.
less metadata, more feeling
In May, Doug Burgum, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, traveled to the tiny town of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, to announce a new policy: caribou hunters will soon be allowed to use all-terrain vehicles inside the Gates of the Arctic...
After the relative calm of the previous visit to the Rokujō Estate, today’s instalment of our chapter-by-chapter journey through The Tale of Genji promises to be an altogether stormier affair, with the weather taking a turn for the...
"Mortimer Gray's History of Death" is a 1995 science fiction novella by Brian Stableford. It is about a nearly immortal man, living in a far future Earth, who writes a life defining Magnum Opus about - you guessed it - death. Mortimer...
It’s a whole year since I made my last book spine poem (aka bookmash), about how swearing is good for you. Emotions run high in this new one too, but there’s no swearing, just birds. Disaffected birds. * The Birds’ Disaffection All the...
The plague of offering a free website/blog platform is the spammers. They’re relentless. I’ve largely automated spam detection now, but it’s eye-rolling to see them keep trying, day-in, day-out. Here’s a prime example. Try harder, bots.