How to Build a Quine

A quine is simply a program that prints itself. This is my explanation of how they are built.

Writing a quine seems like a chicken-and-egg problem but if you really enforce the physical separation between data and code — that is defining the string to print and the…

Three Levels of Developer Productivity

If you work on developer productivity, you sit in an unique spot. You are often given a broad mandate — “make the engineers more productive”-and typically little guidance on what the word ‘productive’ means. (Spoiler: There’s no one right answer here.)

My Jekyll and Git Workflow

A few weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to start blogging again. The reasons for why belong to another post but this is a purely technical explanation of how I setup git and jekyll to do things like drafts, site design tweaks and a write-anywhere environment.

How many fume cupboards are needed?

I’ve recently been brushing up on my statistics by reading Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer. I came across a problem and since I wrote some code to check my answer, I figured I’d post it with a short discussion about the answer.

The Front Line

So, Yahoo messed up today. They’ve messed up other days, too, but this was an especially red-letter day amongst other red-letter days, and this is one that has me ticked off.

For reasons I don’t know, Yahoo laid off the highest level of Flickr’s customer support, the people…