Is that text above, or is it the result of a smallest printing head
competition?

I think publications that think too much of themselves use excessively small
font sizes in order to be less approachable. It’s part of a serie…

I hung out with
@sgharms
yesterday and the conversation was stimulating as usual.

One of the topics was how essential programming will be to future
generations. A few general thoughts I took from it:

…

But only temporarily.

During the short period after reading Hitchens, say a couple of hours, or
perhaps a few days, I am able to think (and write) much more clearly. It’s
as if seeing it done properly leads your brain along a clear…

Remember during the election when we were all talking about who was fighting
for what? Remember how Obama was claiming the Republicans were trying to cut
social security and medicare and such? And the Republicans were coming back
…

There are many ways to explain SQL Injection, and the “best” way is clearly
determined by who you’re talking to. For somewhat technical folks, I like
my friend Steve’s explanation, I use the explanation below.

Two Key Concepts
…

This is
a brilliant piece
about the difference between happiness and meaning, or, more specifically,
the difference between pursuing a happy life vs. pursuing a meaningful life.
I suggest you read the entire thing, but here a…

Like many others, I’ve been in a number of debates about gun control in
recent weeks. Here are my main thoughts on the topic:

The goal of any gun rights or legislation that limits those rights
should be th…

A few thoughts:
Don’t incentivize what you don’t want more of

Internationally, football is known for a zero-tolerance policy with regard
to doping. You don’t get to go on to win 140 medals that get stripped later.
You fail a test…

Having worked in IT for a good bit of time I have thought a lot about
various information technology skillsets and which will become more vs. less
important as we move forward.

Software development is quite strong vs. time bec…

Few terms are so misused as “racist”. People use it to describe everything
from Jim Crow to fashion magazines with too many white women in them. We’re
suffering from a lack of language precision. Something that means everything
m…