(Click to go fullscreen)This is nothing more than an physics-based desk toy - watch the battle play out. Who will win? Part of the fun trying to figure out the...| Andrew's Blog
A recent post on one of the C++ subreddits caught my eye. It has since been deleted but I thought it illustrated an interesting point.Paraphrasing from memory:These are good questions...| sheep.horse
This post advocates minimizing dependencies in web pages that you do not directly control. It conflates dependencies during build time and dependencies in the browser. I maintain that they are...| sheep.horse
I am Andrew Stephens, a New Zealand programmer living in Boston, USA. I write and occasionally do little projects to amuse myself. Contact me: Email, Mastodon, LinkedIn.Subscribe via RSSMy BlogThe...| sheep.horse
We recently stayed in London for almost a week - I've been to London before but only as a stopover to somewhere else. This time I had the opportunity to...| sheep.horse
Is there a more welcome refuge from the troubles of modern life than the laundromat - that electromechanical chapel of enforced contemplation? I find them very relaxing.I haven’t had occasion...| sheep.horse
They say traveling broadens the mind. I am on an extended vacation in Europe, seeing wonderful new vistas, trying new foods, meeting interesting people, connecting to strange Wifi networks...... and...| sheep.horse
It has been over a year since I released Voyage of the Marigold, my similar-but-completely-legally-distinct homage to old-school Star Trek - high time for a retrospective post mortem. This post...| Andrew's Blog
I was using Apple Pages today while lying on the couch and noticed I was getting pretty hot. Pages was using vast amounts of CPU, heating my laptop and thus...| sheep.horse
One of the formative books of my youth was The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll in which Stoll famously tells the tale of how tracking down a 75 cent accounting...| sheep.horse
When I received this email from a very nice reader I knew exactly what they were talking about and it was very much not what I want. Cell phone cameras...| sheep.horse
As a developer I use Google dozens of times a day for technical documentation. For the last 20 years it has been an incredible resource and I have always been...| sheep.horse
There has been talk about Section 230 being repealed or replaced. The intent of the law was to protect owners of “Interactive Computer Services” (ie websites, especially those that publish...| sheep.horse
Normally I see nothing wrong with skeuomorphism in computer interfaces but even I will admit this is deeply silly even by my standards. The project was born in the depths...| sheep.horse
I saw this on mastodon today. It is not often that a pithy sentence encapsulates my feelings on a subject so well. It was a thought like this that led...| sheep.horse
Micropayments, microbilling, microtransactions, call it what you will; it is one of those ideas people say they want but actually do not. In particular, micropayments are not a viable replacement...| Andrew's Blog
