Lisp: The Programmable Programming Language, with Manuel Simoni

Lisp is the ultimate power tool. The language can be extended by the programmer in almost any way it sees fit, without having to wait for Lisp 2.0 or 3.0. It appears to be the ultimate road to infinite programmer…

I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still A Programmer?

About a month or two ago, me and my wife got a present from friends: a 1000 pieced puzzle version of this Escher drawing:

Streamlined Asynchronous JavaScript, with Bruno Jouhier

[Javascript](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript) is a language that has come a long way since Brendan Eich implemented it [in 10 days](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1797304) in the mid-nineties. Until a few years ago it was…

Objective-J and Cappuccino, with Francisco Tolmasky

[280 North](http://280north.com) (bought by [Motorolla](http://gigaom.com/2010/08/25/why-motorola-bought-280-north/)) is the company behind the impressive [280 slides](http://280slides.com/) web-based presentation application (a la Keynote)…

JSIL: Compile .NET to Javascript

As if compiling [LLVM bytecode to Javascript wasn’t crazy enough](https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) there is now the [JSIL](http://jsil.org), a project by Mozilla engineer Kevin Gadd. JSIL compiles CIL (.NET’s bytecode format) to readable Javascript.

Three Routes to Spaghetti-Free Javascript

_(If you are familiar with the problems of moving from synchronous to asynchronous programming, feel free to move to the next section.)_

**Update:** A lot of people misunderstood the main issue: [here is another shot at explaining…

Post-PhD Plans: Cloud 9 IDE

Starting September 1st I will be employed by [Ajax.org](http://ajax.org), the Amsterdam based company that is developing [Cloud 9 IDE](http://c9.io) — not to be confused with the similarly named [Amsterdam-based soccer club](http://www.ajax.nl).

Bye Bye File System

I don’t want to deal with files and directories anymore.

A few weeks ago I bought [IA Writer](http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/) for Mac (thanks [Stephan](https://twitter.com/evilhackerdude)!) — the most basic text editor one could imagine. Its goal is to…

Web vs. Native On Mobile: The Never Ending Struggle

It seems to be an everlasting battle: what’s “better”: developing mobile _native_ applications or developing mobile _web_ applications? Sadly, the answer is boring: it depends.