Writing
Ship Small Diffs
The good lord would not have given me this 25 ton hydraulic splitter if I weren’t meant to cut up some logs.
Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-time Analytics
Analysis whilst avoiding nemesis.
Fourteen Months with Clojure
Improving a situation by rubbing some monads on it.
Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself
Slamming your fingers in the car door of life.
The Sprouter Story
Maybe the O’Reilly Twisted book should have used a Rat King instead.
No Way Out But Through
No, no. Dig up stupid.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Planning
Or: on the Hazards of Narrative Arc
You Can’t have a Rollback Button
The internet is a big truck. It’s really hard to drive it backwards.
Manual Delivery
The arc of history is long and bends towards totally different forms of brutality.
The Case Against Bandit Testing
Fully automated and weaponized ambiguity is, somehow, overrated.
Effective Web Experimentation as a Homo Narrans
Confusion about falsifiability through the ages.
The Archives
I think that’s the good stuff. But I have been writing on the internet for a long time. It hasn't been all bangers.
- On Misery
- Google Reader Killed RSS
- Are My Push Notifications Driving Users Away?
- Data Driven Products: Lean Startup 2014
- Thoughts on the Technical Track
- Growth Hacker TV Interview
- Belated Network World Story
- My Magnum Opus (Reconsidered)
- How Long Should You Run Experiments?
- Testing to Cull the Living Flower
- Yes! The Deploy Dashboard Graphs "Screwed Users."
- Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy
- My Magnum Opus
- Two New Projects
- Scala Parser for PHP Serialized Data
- Programming must be an Open System
- PGProxy: A Testing Proxy for Postgres
- Functional vs. Imperative Red-Black Tree Insertion
- Job Advertisement
- Etsy Haikus
- From the Annals of Dubious Achievement
- And We're Back
- PHP FAIL
- Memetastic
- elisp-ext.el
- Rule of Thumb
- Solitaire et Solidaire
- Some Photos of Brooklyn Renaissance
- Native Posix Python Condition Implementation
- Perhaps this is a Sign of Some Kind
- Haskell Mandelbrot Set
- How to Debug Python in GDB
- FeedEachOther
- Why is my Application Hanging in Weird Places?
- What is Dan Doing?
- Disaster Movie on Orchard and Stanton
- Crazy Hacker Tricks
- Is XAML an Elaborate Joke?
- Reverse Job Advertisement
- New Axe
- The Reports of my Madness may not be so Exaggerated
- TLB to XML
- Wheels I Have Reinvented
- First Impressions of CCR
- Debugging and Symbols FAQ
- Some Twists on Blocked Finalizers
- Please Stop Spamming the Debugger Output
- Pointless Minesweeper Source Code
- Pointless Minesweeper Clone
- Debugger Exercise: Displaying a Function's Return Value
- Beware the OutOfMemoryException Red Herring
- The Russian Doll Approach to Web Services
- C++ and VS2005 Deployment PSA
- The Worst Possible Way to Handle Exceptions
- A Real Head-Scratcher Courtesy The CLR and Office Teams
- Generic and Threadsafe Singleton Implementation
- Thus Ends the Great Adsense Experiment
- Choose Your Constants Carefully
- Online Sports Journalism Audition
- Debugger Feature Request
- Psychic Debugging: Random Crashes
- The Curse of Siragusa
- The Accidental Utility of Slashdot
- I'm All Sixes and Sevens and Nines
- Quick Debugger Tips
- Conventional Javascript Debugging is for Wimps
- SQL Server 2005 Database Diagram PSA
- The Canned Chili Cookoff
- A Meandering Static Locals Story
- Faking Multiple Inheritance With Event Handlers
- Using LeakDiag to Debug Unmanaged Memory Leaks
- Concurrency Approaches Contrasted
- Making a DataSet Read Only
- A Plea for Change in Sports Commentary
- Monad Script to Scrub Perfmon Output
- The Debugger Extension, Part 6: Scanning Threads
- The Debugger Extension, Part 5: Manipulating Managed Types
- The Debugger Extension, Part 4: Searching Memory
- My Tentative Approval of Visual Studio 2005
- The Debugger Extension, Part 3: A Crash Course in .NET Object Layout
- The Debugger Extension, Part 2: A Use Case & The Problem Setup
- The Debugger Extension, Part 1: What Is a DbgEng Extension?
- Exceptions are not a Control Mechanism
- Nonblocking Pool Class
- Hammer Hank Goldberg
- Press Innumeracy
- App Server Autopsy
- Debugging ASP and Visual Basic Applications, Some Assembly Required
- Finally, This Site Produces Some Results
- Following Excel User-Defined Functions With WinDbg - A Debugging Odyssey
- Using WinDbg to Log Exceptions, Part 3
- Using WinDbg to Log Exceptions, Part 2
- Using WinDbg to Log Exceptions
- Dvorak at it Again
- Don Quixote vs. the Bookstore, Part II
- A Word for OllyDbg
- Jealous Much?
- Don Quixote vs. The Bookstore
- DivX Sux
- I Might Have Weird, Mystical Powers
- The End-of-Release-Cycle Motivational Email
- Visual C++ 6.0 Crashing on Startup
- Does ANYONE Comprehend ASP.NET Web Projects?
- A Macroeconomic Theory of Texas Holdem
- NAnt Task to Enforce VB.NET Project Settings
- DataSetSurrogate Remoting Sink
- The Mandelbrot Set Meets Rapid Development Tools
- John Dvorak Benefits from the Public Stupidity He Decries
- Four Irritating Lines of Code
- Annoy Your Friends and Colleagues with Global Flags
- Bizarro TypeInitializationException in System.Runtime.Remoting
- Conversations in the Park
- Console.WriteLine with Wordwrap
- Remoting Email Thread
- Things I Need
- Managed Debugging With WinDbg, Part 1 of N
- Release Day 422: A Vignette
- Thread Safety in VB-2003 Events
- HttpModule for Performing a Custom Action for Certain URLs
- The VB Compiler and Late Binding
- FxCop and Guidelines
- ESPN's Sunday Night Football Crew Makes Me Want to Club a Baby Harp Seal to Death
- Losing God in the Fallacies
- Fear and Loathing in Middle America
- Visual Basic Case Insensitivity
- The Unbelievable Oppression of Lyrics Webistes
- Statistics (Or as we said in Pennsylvania, "Suh-tistics")
- The "Other" DataSet Serialization Problem
- I'm Turning into a Pile of Sand
- Attributes, WithEvents, and Backing Fields
- Visual Basic Conversion Keywords are Thunderdome
- A Hoy-hoy