Neil Fraser's News

Last month I discovered that Verisign is planning to terminate this domain, along with all other 22,000 other third-level .name domains.

Nearly twenty-five years ago I registered neil.fraser.name to provide a stable presence on the Internet.

At this year's Blockly Developer's Summit I gave a talk on programming the Apollo Guidance Computer using Blockly.

These days nearly all computers feature the familiar 'Inverted-T' pattern of cursor keys.

This is the new lamp at the entrance to my workshop.

Programming teachers are constantly pushing students to write comments.

Poisson distributions appear when events occur randomly, with a uniform probability over time, without a connection to each other.

Recently I needed to ship a robot glockenspiel from the Zurich office to myself at the Boston office for a conference, then back again.

The cheap woodworking lathe I had in California only ran on 120v, so we couldn't bring it with us to Switzerland.

Switzerland has an awful lot of trains.

The La Salle Causeway lift bridge was a 100 year old bridge in Kingston, Ontario.

Every year I create a video of Beverly's day.

At this year's Blockly Developer's Summit I gave a talk on some of the browser bugs I've had to deal with.

Recent events have made it abundantly clear that the United States is not a good place to raise a young girl.

Enjoy this glockenspiel which may be programmed by anyone on the Internet.

I picked up a great pair of TELEMAX 5 binoculars at a neighbourhood garage sale for about $20.

We have a number of plugs that stick out of the wall inconveniently.

Every year I create a video of Beverly's day.

While exploring our rather disorganized collection of family photos I found eight boxes of old slides.

This blog has routinely featured wood working, metal working, and laser cutting, yet for some reason 3D printing has been absent.

There is a roll of tape.