Collected writings from the last fifteen years.
(Recipes have moved.)
- In Defense of Design Patterns (October 6, 2009)
- Asking “Why” in Interviews (October 1, 2009)
- Every Line Is a Potential Bug (September 19, 2009)
- Hiring in a Recession (September 15, 2009)
- Paid Vacation (September 10, 2009)
- OurGroceries (August 14, 2009)
- Depth-First Programming (July 24, 2009)
- Are Stocks a Random Walk? (July 19, 2009)
- Vowels in English (March 7, 2009)
- Personal Motivation (March 2, 2009)
- Soccer Team Preference (February 21, 2009)
- Spotty Knowledge (February 15, 2009)
- Introduction to Programming (February 9, 2009)
- Kix Jingle (February 8, 2009)
- Poking the Frame Buffer (February 7, 2009)
- Ubiquity Reconsidered (February 6, 2009)
- Emotional Trials (February 5, 2009)
- Price Discrimination at Toll Booths (February 4, 2009)
- Amorality of Religious People (February 3, 2009)
- Mental Map of Unix Tree (February 2, 2009)
- Season's Greetings (February 1, 2009)
- Coding Machines (January 5, 2009)
- Capitalization of Initialisms (January 4, 2009)
- My Successful Diet (November 20, 2008)
- Personal Timeline Origin (July 28, 2008)
- The Language Squint Test (June 14, 2008)
- Hot Tub Thermostat (June 14, 2008)
- List Comprehensions for Java (March 2, 2008)
- Production Languages and Toy Languages (January 27, 2008)
- Reverse a Linked List (January 22, 2008)
- Essence (December 4, 2006)
- Electronic Voting (November 11, 2006)
- Perception of Time (October 28, 2006)
- Crossing to the Other Side (August 31, 2006)
- Estimates (August 6, 2006)
- Hackers (August 6, 2006)
- A Speluncean Opinion (August 5, 2006)
- Abortion (July 10, 2006)
- What Interests Me (May 16, 2006)
- Science and Religion (May 15, 2006)
- Fact vs. Theory (April 14, 2006)
- Picking Stocks (January 6, 2006)
- Vaccines and Infants (July 22, 2005)
- Buying a House in San Francisco (May 10, 2005)
- Conflict of Interest (April 2, 2005)
- Helping the Average Programmer (March 10, 2005)
- Pronouns (September 26, 2004)
- Binifilaphobia (August 17, 2003)
- Lameness Quantified (August 9, 2003)
- Why Software is Late (May 11, 2003)
- Genetic Taxes (December 3, 2002)
- Thoughts About Bazaars (March 30, 1998)
- OH — MY — GOD (April 25, 1997)
- This Morning (April 25, 1997)
- My Latest Idea (January 15, 1997)
- Slow Assimilation Works Best (October 30, 1996)
- The Apex of My Life (September 26, 1996)
- Simple Is Good (November 14, 1994)
- Meaningless Variable Names (July 7, 1994)
- Program Testing (July 7, 1994)
- Algorithm for Picking a Name for an Apartment Complex (July 20, 1994)
- Neural Nets (February 9, 1994)
- Intent vs. Result (November 28, 1993)