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There’s much debate about whether or not we’re living in a simulation. If we are, who’s pulling the strings? Who created it? Would being in a simulation really be so bad, a… Read More

Yesterday, in a post about Twitter trends, I mentioned how Elizabeth Warren was trending for some reason. I didn’t know (or care) why. But as is the case when you spend too much time o… Read More

We’ve reached the point of the Biden administration where I’m starting to feel guilty of senior abuse writing about him. But I didn’t vote for him, so screw it. Joe Biden w… Read More

In the fall of 2003, I started an eight-month internship at IBM Ottawa that would later turn into my first full-time job as a software developer. I had joined the J9 Java VM team to work on… Read More

Note: this is a follow-up to Three ways of handling user input. You should read that article first if you haven’t already! In my last post, I looked at three different ways of handli… Read More

Although there has been important progress in models and packages for the output of graphics to computer screens, there has been little change in the way that input from the mouse, keyboard… Read More

The dinkus – a symbol between story or essay sections – is a source of confusion to many writers. To use, or not to use? What is a dinkus actually for? Read a definition of the d… Read More

Ohm is an open-source parsing toolkit for JavaScript which Alex Warth and I have been working on since 2014. You can use it to parse custom file formats or quickly build parsers, interpreter… Read More

Writing short stories provides a stepping stone to conquering larger story forms. Short story structure is easier to see due to brevity. Learn how to structure stories, with examples by a ma… Read More

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The first thing you should know before I get into this review is that I’ve never read this author before, so it was the blurb for The Love Experiment that caught my eye and had me hitt… Read More

Attention Webmasters! No more will the mobile phones suffer being just a tiny little dinkus when it comes to search engine results consideration! With Google’s new algorithmic policy… Read More