I recently stumbled upon a nice blog post titled
Childhood
Computing. It made me think about my own childhood computing
experience. I am much older than the author of the aforementioned
post, but like them, I too love computers. I have for most of my
life.
...
This is going to be a rant about modern web design practices. But
before I get to that, let me begin with a familiar principle from
the world of cryptography. Among software developers, and
especially among those who work on security-sensitive systems, there
is ...
Let me share a very silly story from roughly 18 years ago! In 2008,
I joined
RSA, the
network security company named after the initials of the inventors
of the RSA algorithm, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman, who were also the
founders of RSA, the company.
There ...
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It is a commonly held opinion that educational institutions could do
more to improve the pedagogy of mathematics. This is especially
applicable to primary and secondary schools, where students are
first exposed to mathematics as a formal subject, along with other
...
Last evening, a short blog post appeared in my feed reader that felt
as if it spoke directly to me. It is Chris Morgan's excellent post
I've banned
query strings.
Contents
Wisdom on the Web
Wander on the Web
Misfeature
Broken URLs
Qualms
Conclusion
W...
Wander Console 0.6.0 is now available. This is the sixth release of
Wander, a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets
visitors to your website discover interesting websites and pages
recommended by a community of independent website owners. To try
...
Yesterday, I switched my website from RSS feeds to Atom feeds. In
case you are wondering whether you have somehow landed on an ancient
post from 2010, no, you have not. Yes, this is the year 2026, and I
have finally switched from RSS feeds to Atom feeds. Yes, I a...
QuickQWERTY 1.2.3 is now
available. QuickQWERTY is a web-based touch typing tutor for QWERTY
keyboards that runs directly in the browser.
This release includes two small bug fixes. In the
previous release, QuickQWERTY source code
management moved from GitHub...
