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Summer’s end is creeping up on us.

Kiwix is a multi-platform content browser that is designed to support offline access to large content websites, like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow, in under-developed countries.

Today my company, Teaming has launched our application on Product Hunt.

In a previous blog post I wrote about using the find command to search a file system.

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split is both a fun stroll through UNIX history and also a good illustration about how far-reaching decisions are sometimes made based on short-term limitations, creating long-term complexity where it otherwi…

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I’ve watched a few BBC documentaries by Adam Curtis now, and I have a lot of respect for his ability to articulate ideas, and delve into history.

I’ve been a paying Evernote user for years; and before that, a “free” Evernote user for even longer.

This morning I finished reading Thomas Sowell’s book Black Rednecks and White Liberals.

If you’ve done any Microsoft development in the last two decades you probably know the name Scott Hanselman, and are probably familiar with his blog at hanselman.com.

This is a post I uploaded to Facebook on March 9.

Sometimes bugs can be particularly evasive, and today I had such a one.

One of my favorite utilities for OSX is Homebrew, a package manager that lets you easily install programs from the terminal.

I finally watched Joker last night.

The Mythical Man-Month is one of those books that is, well, mythical in the circles to which it pertains – that is, the software engineering and computer science fields.

During a recent code interview, I noticed a React component with a render method written in the following (abbreviated) form, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 render() { return this.state.items.length > 0 ?

This post on Hacker News is worth the read, not only for OP’s posted content, but because of the follow-up comments (routinely the better part of Hacker News submission).

While working with React for the last five months, I’ve noticed that React developers make extensive use of object destructuring, especially in function signatures.

My grandparents were religious about watching the evening news.