Blogs about Development

Steamboat Willie (1928) was one of the earliest cartoons with synchronized sound. That is, it had post-production sound effects; this was something new and exciting. Now that the cartoon has recently entered the public domain[bbc24] …

It’s the only way to survive as an engineering leader. Hand off tasks/work to the team Give guidelines, execution tactics, or constraints to keep things on track Set an expectation of what to deliver and …

I’m excited to launch a big 2.0 update to my album-focussed music player, Longplay. If you’re interested in the app itself and what’s new, head over to longplay.rocks or the App Store. In this post …

Or FOFAFOSS. Rolls right off your tongue. Like in many families, there's always a bit of.. turmoil and drama in FOSS. Something breaks (either on purpose or by accident), people get frustrated.. The usual. It …

This was a fun chat with Mylar Melodies for his Why We Bleep podcast, about algorave, tidalcycles/strudel, live coding and patterns. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or on youtube below !

Two of Slack’s original employees, Johnny Rodgers and Ali Rayl, have started writing a delightful newsletter/blog called Building Slack. There are some great passages already. The clarity of the initial pitch from Stewart: “You’ll know …

I bought a kayak a couple of weeks ago. It’s one of those fold-up jobs by Oru, and I got it instead of a more traditional kayak because it’s very light and can easily fit …

Given that building programming languages and interpreters is the developer's most favorite hobby, I will never stop writing templating engines. About three years ago I first wanted to see if I can make an implementation …

When I set out to build a simple computer with an FPGA ( here, here, and here), my end goal was always to display something on a computer monitor. VGA was a natural choice because …

The scientific method must be liberated. In an era marked by misinformation, mass surveillance and political propaganda, corporate monopolies and platforms hinder scientific innovation and knowledge sharing. Scientists, researchers, academics and their affiliated organisations must …

I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 Standard licenses ($209.98 value each) for OmniGraffle, including both iOS and Mac licenses. OmniGraffle is the premier application for visual communication of ideas. Omni makes great software, …

While working on a changelog-generation script for my vsvg project, I wanted to display the list of contributors as circular avatars, just like GitHub does in multiple places. After a few Google searches and some …

Wanted to fire up OmniOS to play with and didn’t have any spare x86 hardware to hand so decided to figure out running it in UTM on Apple Silicon, meaning it needs emulation as OmniOS …

I have the week off of work this week, it’s a much-needed break after an extremely stressful period. Normally we would travel during a week off and, indeed, we considered it. In the end though, …

(This is one of the "people are wrong on the internet!!!" posts I write to clear it out of my head. And then refer back to later in future arguments, in imagined triumph, as though …

I’ve spent a lot of time editing Wikipedia. I do it for many reasons, but one of the sillier ones floating around the margins of my consciousness is that I like to think that, by …

Bill and Darling are watching Jeopardy.DARLING: Bill, one of the categories is MATH TALK. You will kick butt!BILL: Not clear. I doubt they will have the least number n such that R(n) is not known. …