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Another in a series of posts wherein I spitball about things that computer scientists already know, but have only just occurred to me.

With the hubbub about net neutrality, fast lanes and Netflix, I though I would illustrate what we are dealing with technologically.

There is a notion I hear from time to time that earning (say) $100,000 while living in NYC makes one “middle class”.

I use Pocket, a handy “read it later” tool.

Addy Osmani describes Web Components, of which an important part is custom tags.

There are stylistic debates about how much nesting or indentation one should choose in code.

I am really, really enjoying Ben Horowitz’s The Hard Thing About Hard Things.

I’ve been working at Stack for over three years now, and over the last six months or so I’ve been doing playing with a programming language called Go.

I had a realization some years ago in working with a person at a previous firm.

I consider our industry’s current approach to ads to be wildly inefficient.

I am working on a tool for generics-like functionality in Go.

I’ve a new release of gen, the generics-like tool for Go.

I previously mentioned that advertising-based publishers should embrace SSL as a product upgrade, a service to their customer.

Here’s a good article about why news sites on the web are slow to embrace SSL.

John Maeda of RISD has a riff about the future of college credentials, including the notion of an automated ‘degree’, which is generated by a machine based on the sum your achievements.

We all see progress bars and some of us even implement them.

There’s been healthy talk about progress indicators in the age of ajax.

I like language.

The NSA has published a paper claiming that it “touches” only 1.6% of Internet traffic.

This is an encouraging story about Google exploring the ability to encrypt ‘sitting files’ in their Google Drive product.

This study that Google conducted to find predictors for success in their hiring process is very interesting.

As programmers, we have a powerful tool that we deploy often: OCD.

I played with iOS7 today for a bit and discussed the flat design with a couple of Stack’ers.

Ruby is beautiful in many ways.

Chris Baus laments that developers are rarely impressed by other developers.

I went to a talk last night by John Allspaw at Etsy, about alerts and how they are hard to get right.

At the risk of revealing my lack of a CompSci degree: what if ‘source code’ were replaced by serialized syntax trees?

I use CoffeeScript here and there.

Amtrak is improving its wifi, it claims.

A French ISP has started blocking ads at the router level for its customers, enabled by default.

That Apple, and other companies, are deciding to move manufacturing back to the United States is evidence of the diminishing importance of labor costs in decision-making.

This article offers a lot of sound advice on hiring a designer.

I’ve suggested many times that Microsoft should disable third-party cookies by default in IE10 (and Safari does currently).

Here’s a really informative article on the economics of Google’s fiber offer.

I have a few concerns, relating to unintended consequences, with a proposed loser-pays bill on software patents.

I am very interested in Windows 8 both as a user and as a tech industry watcher.

The new Retina Macbook looks quite beautiful, but from a productivity standpoint I am a bit disappointed.

At my ripe old age one might expect me to give up programming and focus more on management.

Tim Lee offers two views of the economic case for innovation.

The ideas of conservative and liberal have become very confused, and in many cases exactly backwards.

We’ve got a few hundred folks using Better Bird, my Chrome extension for fixing the Twitter web UI, and I’m thrilled.

It occurs to me, as I look at my Google+ stream for the first time in two months, the reason I never use it: it never had a chance to grow on me.

Consider for a moment the logic of the leading paragraph of this article: Research suggests that consumers spend only about one second looking at nutrition information when making myriad choices.

While “truthy” values in JavaScript can cause no small amount of heartache, one must admit they help readability.

There are rumors afoot that Apple will offer TV channels as apps in an upcoming release.

You watch a movie.

I created a Chrome extension to fix what I think are some rough edges and poor choices in the Twitter web app.

As I’ve written in the past, there are several unique inefficiencies to the Manhattan apartment market.

I was chatting with my colleagues at Stack Exchange the other day and we wondered what it means to “own” a data type.