In the autumn of last year my friend Joan and I went on a little trip up to the Skagit valley north of Seattle to photograph birds of prey; I managed to get a blurry but recognizable shot of this … Continue reading →

GoCardless can help your non-profit with online fundraising.

GoCardless can help your non-profit with online fundraising.

Learn how to choose the best payment gateway for Shopify stores.

Learn how to choose the best payment gateway for Shopify stores.

What is a final invoice and when should you send one?

What is a final invoice and when should you send one?

A progress invoice is used when work in ongoing, alternative to other invoices.

A progress invoice is used when work in ongoing, alternative to other invoices.

Deal with long timelines and large budgets, then progress billing is for you.

Deal with long timelines and large budgets, then progress billing is for you.

The Open Source software development model is a powerful approach to collaboratively iterating on a shared solution to a common problem. Rather than competitors duplicating effort to come up with multiple suboptimal solutions, they can collaborate together to build something greater. Forking is the ...

I did a bit of experimenting over the weekend in an attempt to figure out how to write an interface that abstracted over methods whose return type was identical to the receiver’s type. This is frequently a thing that one wants to do when abstracting over self-cloning objects, or things that implemen...

📔 Intro # When I started this blog in 2015 it was more to learn than to actually write anything. WordPress was easy enough to set up and maintain along with the plethora of plugins to mess with.

📔 Intro # I no longer use Goatcounter. I instead use Umami. This tutorial will still work if you wish you use Goattcounter though. I just posted about how I migrated from WordPress to Hugo here:

Power your on-demand service app with PubNub. This tutorial will teach you how to build a ridesharing Android app (Uber or Lyft clone).

We break down what you need to know about how to deliver SMS text messaging to your users without violating HIPAA regulations.

Power your on-demand service app with PubNub. This tutorial will teach you how to build a ridesharing Android app (Uber or Lyft clone).

We break down what you need to know about how to deliver SMS text messaging to your users without violating HIPAA regulations.

I know I’m almost a decade late to this party, but I’m probably not the only one, so here goes. Double Fine Adventure was a wildly successful 2012 Kickstarter project to crowdfund the development of a point-and-click adventure game and, crucially, to document its development on video. The resulting ...

Reader “Joel” had an insightful comment on the first part of this series which I thought deserved a short episode of its own. Recall that we proved the theorem “if a compositional forest contains a mockingbird then every bird in … Continue reading →

Planet Lite, our copyright-free map of the entire world, has been upgraded with enhanced features and issue fixes have been made to our lite version of MapTiler Planet. This latest release of the Lite version of MapTiler Planet has improved compatibility, boundaries, and some new features and upgrad...

Private service providers are entitled to do business with whom they please, or not to. Occasionally, a platform will take advantage of this to deny service to a particular entity on any number of grounds, often igniting a flood of debate online regarding whether or not censorship in this form is ju...

Private service providers are entitled to do business with whom they please, or not to. Occasionally, a platform will take advantage of this to deny service to a particular entity on any number of grounds, often igniting a flood of debate online regarding whether or not censorship in this form is ju...

Keeping our pace of 1 minor a month, this is the January 2023 release.

A maximal length sequence of branch-free code that terminates with a branch or jump is referred to as a basic block. A basic block that branches to another forms an edge in the Control Flow Graph (CFG). The initial basic block starting an edge is the predecessor; it precedes and is succeeded by the ...