A few years ago, I found myself in a flea market in downtown Montreal. Amid dusty furniture and faded French-Canadian comic books, I saw something that piqued my interest: a large black plastic box—a

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No one really fully knows WTF is going with iCloud - documentation is basically nonexistent, support unavailable, implementation broken in trivial ways, and error messages inscrutable. I was at an Mac/iOS conference recently where the Core Data iCloud talk morphed from a standard talk into a “here’s…

It’s not often that one has the opportunity to be the target of a cyber and kinetic attack at the same time. But that is exactly what’s happened to me and my Web site over the past 24 hours. On Thursd

Who Can Name theBigger Number? by Scott Aaronson [Author's blog] [This essay in Spanish] [This essay in French] [This essay in Chinese] In an old joke, two noblemen vie to name the bigger number. The

Basic instructions If you have not already done so, create a Universal Analytics property for each website you want to collect data from. Creating a property generates a unique Tracking ID and the Goo

HTTP disk cache Stores HTTP responses on disk as long as their headers permit caching. Lookups are usually significantly cheaper than fetching over the network, but they are not free as a single disk

26th Feb 2013 | 15:16 Journey’s composer Austin Wintory explains how his music helped shape thatgamecompany’s much-admired PSN game. After scoring Journey, Austin Wintory raised eyebrows by announcing his next project: the Leisure Suit Larry reboot. At his most recent gig, he drew the Animex Game…

Following my article A String is not an Error , I want to bring attention to an issue that similarly applies to JavaScript in general, but has special relevance in the Node.JS environment. The problem boils down to the usage of {} as a data-structure where the keys are supplied by untrusted user…

My favourite podcast of all time, Hypercritical, on the 5by5 network concluded this week with its 100th episode. Hosted by Dan Benjamin and John Siracusa the show has been consistently good over the last two years and could have easily continued for more. However Siracusa decided that it was time to…

This November, I was sad to hear that my all-time favourite podcast, Hypercritical, would be ending at episode #100. In the last week or so, I’ve read (and heard) many tributes from other fans of the podcast, and with the last episode fresh in my mind, I wanted to say a few words myself. Co-hosted…

This past November it was announced that my all-time favorite podcast, Hypercritical , was ending. Hypercritical is a weekly show hosted by John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin where John focuses his razor