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2023

• A quick proof about the Fibonacci sequence

2020

• What’s the smallest amount of currency that can’t be represented by a floating-point number?

2019

• Counterfactual fgrep
• Road work, next few miles
• Wikipedia curiosity of the day
• Unsustainable
• How to restore autocompleting search results in LaunchBar
• Noon
• Parsing JSON with more context
• An otherwise functional clock that hasn’t been adjusted for DST is right zero times a day

2018

• A Dream of Zsh
• Microblogging
• Do Not Disturb On Weekend Mornings
• Versioning and backward compatibility
• A gentle plea from someone who occasionally does drive-by bugfixes of free-software projects
• Instagram’s algorithmic timeline reduces my “engagement”
• New project: An ebook of “The Hacker Crackdown” by Bruce Sterling
• How to profile your zsh startup time
• A programming idea for concert band directors

2017

• One moment in “The One Moment”
• Quick impressions of Firefox Quantum
• Christmas in Rochester
• Batteries
• Another perspective on Twitter’s move to 280 characters
• TTYL, AIM
• A summary of the versioning scheme of large companies’ iOS apps
• New project: Microformats2 on a Map
• Kibibytes are silly and we should all use them
• Listing the last person who committed to each branch in a Git repository
• What I believe
• Day One’s lack of encryption is crippling it for me

2016

• HTTP 410 Gone But Not Forgotten
• Never Again
• Subtweeting without tweeting
• A nifty fifty isn’t always the best choice for your first lens
• Converting to and from hexadecimal at the command line
• An incomplete list of Western New York towns that were named after famous places or people but somehow ended up with completely different pronunciations
• Close call
• Setting up OCSP stapling for Let’s Encrypt certificates under nginx

2015

• Emoji flags redux
• Soup of Theseus
• Leonard Nimoy
• The Inner Loop lives on
• How I use Day One

2014

• Powers of $10
• How to get MathJax and Bigfoot to work together
• Unicode’s encoding of national flags is just crazy enough to work
• Decentralizing social networks
• New domain (same great orangey taste)

2013

• Tap Tap Tap doubles down
• Why you should passcode-protect your iPhone
• Just how repetitive is “Get Lucky”?
• The RSS apocalypse is upon us
• Friday misogyny roundup
• Sharing and the expectation of privacy
• Star Trek Into Darkness

2012

• Video games and art
• The Olympic Colors Problem

2011

• Why lossless audio is just easier
• Building and hosting a static site with Jekyll and Amazon S3 on Mac OS X

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