I have an angel and a devil sitting atop each shoulder. The angel says, "Just code for fun! What you make can be just for your enjoyment and that's --" the devil interjects, "not enough to get ahead, loser. If you're not coding your next startup then how're you gunna get rich? Coding for fun? Pfft,…

I turn 30 on May 7, 2025. It's a bit of a scary event! I want to make the most of the occasion so in lieu of other plans, I'm taking the opportunity to raise funds for educational non-profits. I was forced to drop out of college when I was 19 because I could no longer afford to go. It was incredibly…

Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their competitors. Dan Fabulich 3 min read· Apr 28, 2025 -- Four major web browsers dominate the market: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple’s Safari.…

This is the story of Erlang, a programming language that was maybe too good for its own sake. Corporate blunders are nothing new. Many of these blunders are widely known, such as the time Blockbuster declined to purchase Netflix, or the time Daimler-Benz lost 20 billion dollars on Chrysler. But how…

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We open up man pages for all kinds of CLI commands everyday. We should have a frictionless man page viewer that stands up to the task. After recently reading Man pages are great, man readers are the problem ↗, I was curious what a better viewer would be and why we put up with the one that is…

Done, and Gets Things Smart Disclaimer: I do not speak for Google! These are my own views and opinions, and are not endorsed in any way by my employer, nor anyone else, for that matter. Everyone knows and quotes Joel's old chestnut, " Smart, and Gets Things Done." It was a blog, then a , and now…

Table of Contents Nerdlog: fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram Loosely inspired by Graylog/Kibana, but without the bloat. Pretty much no setup needed, either. Hosted on Github: https://github.com/dimonomid/nerdlog. First of all, a little demo. Here, we're dealing with (fake) logs…

Python is one of the most widely adopted programming languages in the world. Yet, because of it’s ease and simplicity to just “get something working”, it’s also one of the most underappreciated. If you search for Top 10 Advanced Python Tricks on Google or any other search engine, you’ll find tons of…

A Google search for something entirely unrelated led me to a very old issue of the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I was teaching back then. Apparently (I had forgotten all about it of course) I was piqued by a student’s letter to the editor,…