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In 2005, Steve Jobs told the graduating class of Stanford a now-famous story about connecting the dots - a story about the calligraphy courses he took in his college years, which later influenced the industry-leading digital fonts that shipped with the Ma…

At Nerve, whenever I fetch any data from anywhere, I use a GraphQL-style query to do it.

Hysteresis is a weird and kind of ill-defined term from nonlinear dynamics (which is the study of systems whose outputs(s) are nonlinear functions of their input(s).)

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately.

It's a pedagogical pet peeve of mine when technical concepts are simply listed in their fully developed state, with little in the way of motivation, derivation, or historical context.

Right after college I spent two years at Microsoft, working on an internal pipeline that handled real-time telemetry data for Hotmail, OneDrive (SkyDrive back then), and some other major services.

CORRECTION: In this article I make that case that Mario's name is just Mario, not Super Mario.

EDIT: Part 2 is up!

I've been writing some guides at my startup, Nerve, for newer engineers.

The other day I came across some people on The Internet talking about a certain scene from Labyrinth, which is a movie from the 80s (if you haven't seen it you should - lavish musical numbers, very unsettling Jim Henson puppetry, David Bowie doing contact…