Written a few months ago and published on my blog at www.liam-brown.com. Space is not really silent. Yes, to ears that sense vibrations in liquids or gases it is. …

We don’t eat eggs no more around here. I’m sorry. I can get you your waffles with maple syrup, bacon, coffee, sweet tea, unsweet tea, some newfangled egg substitute, on and on. My pa opened this café, and he used to tell his customers “it ain’t fancy, but it’s filling…

One says, “This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.” Possibly the strangest moment of my career to date happened a few months ago, when a junior developer on my team noticed that I was using Emacs. He told me with…