Why 'Strong Opinions Weekly Held'

Visualizing A Million People

If your feature pisses off a million people what does this angry mob look like? Spoiler: We only get to 750,000.

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Fart Limit

Can a fart be fatal? Let's see what science and OSHA have to say.

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Shannon Paper

Claude Shannon's A mathematical theory of communication is an oft cited classic in information theory. Let's dive in and try to tease apart the "why"s that are often overlooked when people build on top of the introduced theory. They are definitely things that I didn't consider to be obvious without the benefit of reading the paper.

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Sometimes It's the Interviewers Who Suck

On WontFixing Bugs

Large projects accumulate a large number of issue reports over time. This is normal. Typically for a "successful" project the rate of new issues being reported will exceed the rate of issues being fixed. Hence the growth.

But what are they to do about this ever-growing pile of bugs?

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Deriving the Poisson Distribution

Ten Years

Visualizing Internet Users

Things You Can Do With Neovim and Vscode That You Can't Do With Neovim Alone