Git: it’s a blockchain!This is a git tutorial, in the form of an introduction to block chains/This is a learning-by-doing exercise in building a block chain, with…Apr 30Apr 30
Best of SXSW 2020I listened to all 1,054 songs from the SXSW festival (posted before the festival didn’t happen), and here are the twenty or so that stood…Nov 22, 2020Nov 22, 2020
How I moved to The CloudWhen I go, all that will be left will be my home directory. Might as well keep it safe.Jul 1, 2020Jul 1, 2020
Best of SXSW 2019Yes, it took me over a year to sift through the >1000 tracks from SXSW, but here are my top 25 recommendations. I’ve added a few comments…Apr 5, 2020Apr 5, 2020
Willful ignorance of context, the Nazis, and the ACLUYou’ve already read a lot about Charlottesville in the press, but you may not have followed the back story very closely, or may not have…Aug 16, 20171Aug 16, 20171
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love classical music (part 2)OK, you read Part 1, and are thinking that you’ll give all that music that sounded like an unending wash of notes another chance. So, where…Jul 25, 2016Jul 25, 2016
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love classical music (part 1)I have a short stack of ‘how to listen’ books on my shelf over there, and over the years I’ve put decent effort into reading them and…Jul 25, 2016Jul 25, 2016
On bringing stories to data, or, the trouble with the CubistsI did badly in every statistics class.Nov 24, 20151Nov 24, 20151
HTTPS: the end of an eraMozilla, the foundation that maintains Firefox, has announced that it will effectively deprecate the insecure HTTP protocol, eventually…May 6, 201513May 6, 201513