Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages

User interface design, I swear

Hacking the Git Shell Prompt

How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out

Testing for Divisibility by 19

A better way to do remote presentations

The 1999 and 2003 messages explained

Weird Constants in Math Problems

Design patterns of 1972 (2006)

The largest city in each 10x10 degree latitude/longitude box

Weirdos in the Great Depression

Geeking Out over Arbitrary Boundaries

Learn to read Middle English

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

Higher-Order Perl

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

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