Over the past few years, I’ve given a number of talks at various conferences and internal company events. I am by no means the most accomplished or well-known tech speaker. …

I’ve been a huge fan of Sid Meier’s Civilization Series since Alpha Centauri came out in 1999. (Amusingly, the game installer offered a “laptop install” option, since the full ~150mb installation was too big for portable devices.) According to Steam, I’ve logged 178 hours in Civ 5, 33 hours of…

An article from the July / August 2017 issue of The Atlantic, The Smartphone Psychiatrist, by David Dobbs, mentioned digital privacy in a way that readers could take as advice about their personal digital safety. …

A response to WSJ’s “The Phony Internet Privacy Panic” — On March 31st, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed claiming to “add a few facts” to the discussion over S.J. Res. 34, which undoes Obama-era FCC protections for consumer internet privacy. Unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal’s fact-finding mission is fundamentally marred by inaccuracies of its own. What the WSJ Got Wrong, Objectively

The Unintended Consequences of Punching Richard Spencer — On January 20th, a man was assaulted on camera by a masked man in Washington DC. Because the victim had unpopular opinions, people are divided about whether this violence was justified. …

Take a look at the following two images, deliberately chosen to represent different parts of the political spectrum:

Joe Queenan recently wrote a light-hearted piece for the Wall Street Journal decrying “badly dressed museum-goer[s]”: People go to museums to see beautiful things: madonnas, knights in white satin, glorious sunsets, improbably muscular stallions, anything that’s classy. Why, then, do they dress like pigs? If he’s complaining about “the jerk…

I have attended six conferences and spoken at four. These numbers are dwarfed by those of many other people, and I don’t claim to be an expert on public speaking. However, I have noticed some repeating problems, which stem from the fact that in the tech community, our primary competency…

Getting Started with F# on a Mac using the Windows 10 Preview In preparation for my talk at LambdaConf, I wanted to be able to develop in F# on my Mac. There wasn’t a super easy guide that explained everything I needed to do, so I thought I’d write one…