Tiers of answers to half-baked questions

Why my book can be downloaded for free

Git wishlist: aggregate changes across non-contiguous commits (2019)

Screensharing your talk slides is skeuomorphic

Pauli Chess

Programming an HP-15C

Gentzen's Rules for Natural Deduction

Benchmarking shell pipelines and the Unix “tools” philosophy

A sticky problem that evaporated

Moonpig, a billing system that doesn't suck (2013)

Help me ask why you didn't just

Another use for strace (isatty)

The least common divisor and the greatest common multiple

Incenters of chocolate-iced cakes

Breaking Pills

The exponential function is a miracle

What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?

The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)

Mathematical Jargon Failures

A happy numeric coincidence

60-degree angles on a lattice

A puzzle about representing numbers as a sum of 3-smooth numbers

Applicative WTF?

Notes on using git-replace to get rid of giant objects

Ambiguous words and dictionary hacks (2007)

A fun optimization trick from rsync

Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 1 of ∞)

Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 2 of ∞)

APL matrix product operator

How to explain infinity to kids

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