Ripping up the street to install more phone lines, mixing more sauces into your burritos, burning love.
At last, I understand something about graphics.
Baldness and starmen.
Prog rock can’t get any longer, graphical effects from medieval times to the Atari 2600, and the consequences of extreme penny pinching.
Systems of axioms and entertainment.
All the feels, all the HTML elements.
Games, trains, and long-ass interviews.
The Apple Lisa sleeps with the fishes; much is written about the senses.
How to get software right, help your users reason about numbers, and twist your fingers in knots.
Broods, in one form or another.
The inevitable LLM take appears.
Spreadsheets, CSS, archives of commercial art — get in, loser, we’re doing homework.
Mars doesn’t actually need women (or anyone); cat memes can be quite serious.
Logo but make it dry, fun stuff in Santa Fe, new twists on Snake, old new wisdom on computation versus cleverness.
Constraining text wrapping to improve readability.
It’s not all bad.
Some lesser-known functionality in a well-known collection of utilities.
Why the sort command’s “human numeric” only sort of sorts numerically.
Expose your library’s functions as standalone commands, get a REPL for free.
Putting Make to unusual uses.
Computing where—and when—the sun does shine.
From scarcity to overabundance in two short decades.
Doom, Prince, and the Genesis.
Legacy systems for good and evil; how much Wordle is too much?