proI Wanted To Learn Computer Science so I Created My Own Degree — Here’s My Curriculum

The Problem with MongoDB

And what to do about it…

The travel-only Gmail account: A practical proposal for digital privacy at the US border

Three reasons I avoid anonymous JS functions like the plague

You’re bound to see an anonymous function whenever your read code. Sometimes they are called lambdas, sometimes anonymous functions, either way, I think they’re bad.

If we build it, why would anyone care?

A prospective founder must ask: is my idea viable? But this question also must be addressed…

React Studio Public Beta 2

It has been one month since we launched Beta 1 of React Studio. Since then we’ve been hard at work on fixing…

The Tourist’s Guide to Deep Learning

You don’t need a PhD to understand what it is and what it can do

Why a lot of computer science engineers in India are unemployed

On the web, size matters

The web has a problem. Most web sites (weighted by volume of traffic) are made by and for wealthy able westerners with fast computers and fast connections, and are borderline unusable by anybody outside that group. What makes this a problem is that these websites are inaccessible for…

The Culture of a Phone

This year we have implemented a ‘no phones in meetings’ rule, and I have to say, I love it!

Poisonous Interface Type Domains

Using types with ambitious domains in interface contracts can encourage observed range dependencies and create implicit contracts.

The Rural Revival

I was sitting on my balcony yesterday afternoon, watching the blinking lights of the CN tower and the cityscape of Toronto in…