Posts tagged "tech"

Humans vs. Machines: The End for Competitive Chess

Please be aware that the views expressed in this poste are solely those of the author and do not represent the official stance of any chess federation or organization. The world of competitive ches...

Superstition - an engineering anti-pattern

Design patterns are reusable approaches to common problems - anti-patterns are the same, but ineffective (and even counterproductive). An example of a design pattern is the singleton - we often wan...

Stubbornness and programming

Every now and then, there will be the type of problem to solve where I know it will require an extra cup of coffee, a long block of dedicated time, and a lot of careful reading, debugging, note tak...

Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

WebSocket (WS) connections are pretty neat. I’ve gotten to play around with them before, both for personal and professional projects, but my view has mostly been at a high level and concerned mainl...

Top 3 USELESS JavaScript interview questions 🤮

Unix is not Linux

Things to be aware of when discussing the shell and Unix programs.

Trying to add search to this website

I’m interested in adding some search functionality to this website. Unfortunately, it looks like adding search to a blogdown site is something that is more theme specific. Since my theme does not i...

What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really

I dabble with DNS for work, and I’m frequently checking if CNAMEs are properly configured. CNAMEs are Canonical NAMEs, kind of like nicknames, that indicate that one domain name is a nickname for a...

The data do not speak for themselves

Statistical modelling may seem like a very complex enterprise. Our correspondents often say “I’m not interested in modelling my data; I only want to analyse it.” However, any kind of data analysis ...

Quotes from Box, Hunter, and Hunter's Statistics for Experimenters

There are some quotes about design of experiments on the inside of Box, Hunter, and Hunter (BHH). Here are the ones that I enjoy the most. I think I extracted about 25% of the quotes that are in th...

Search engines are now recommendation engines

Search engines increasingly blend recommendations with search results. I differentiate between a search result and recommendation: A search result is a “match”, a document that contains the search ...

Living in a Building Site: The Over-Development of London’s Housing Estates

London's housing crisis necessitates inventive solutions to build new social housing. But have they gone too far at Antony and Roderick Houses?

How to prevent your Mac from sleeping in a Makefile

Often I find myself using third-party software like Caffeine or Amphetamine to keep my Mac awake while running some specific commands. Sometimes it is because I am running backups. Sometimes it is ...

To Escape the Heat, Just Apply Suncream?

Heatwave precautions are a meme. Is it really more important to wear your suncream when outside on a hot day than a cool day? Of course not, but the advice to do so is copied across the media and s...

Sharpening the axe for programming

A woodsman was once asked, “What would you do if you had just five minutes to chop down a tree?” He answered, “I would spend the first two and a half minutes sharpening my axe.” When it comes to so...

Planning Our Manchester Network Migration

Over the next three months there are going to be a lot of moving parts in the FAELIX machine. All of these will be choreographed around the establishment of our new presence in Equinix MA5, the con...

Making this blog easier to read

Last month I was lucky enough to hop on a call with Oliver Schöndorfer. He runs the Pimp My Type blog and YouTube channel. I have been following Oliver’s channel for awhile, and tweaking this blog ...

Installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud

A short guide to installing FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud.

Funny artifacts in a 3D house scan

I like to window shop houses on Zillow. I really enjoy the recent trend of 3D interior scans, as they help give you a feeling for what the place is like, and it allows for another way to explore th...

Simple Testing with `git diff`

Simple Testing with git diff Automatic tests are great, but creating and maintaining them is time consuming and sometimes really complicated. Often, getting a moderate test coverage to prevent regr...