Thoughts on how the notion of intelligence doesn’t have a crisp definition and remains very human-centric, and the implications on discussing Artificial General Intelligence.

Detailed explanation of how improvements in the steering system — in particular, to the popularity and advantages of rack and pinion steering — led to the change from deep dish wheels to flat wheels.

A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing.

Simple explanation of the difference between Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n).

An introduction to bitmaps, what they’re used for, and what Roaring bitmaps solve that traditional bitmaps don’t.

Detailed analysis of the rendering pipeline for the game: Deus Ex: Human Revolution

A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans.

Detailed example of a computer build using the XTIA XPROTO-N case.

Introduction to the Aztec Pantheon and detailed explanation of the iconography.

Tool that leverages wireguard to create an ephemeral reverse proxy for local services.

Tutorial on Videogrep: a command-line tool that automatically generates supercuts.

This blog post documents my understanding of how the conventions for Unix command line syntax have evolved over time. It’s not properly sourced, and may well be quite wrong. I’ve not been using Unix until 1989, so I wasn’t there for the early years.

Detailed explanation of how mechanical watches work, with a lot of interactive illustrations.

On what makes the first sentence of a novel memorable.

Detailed explanations on how to programmatically read iphone backups (including how the encryption scheme works) in order to extract the whatsapp history from it.

gpg-tui is a Terminal User Interface for GnuPG

Terminal based presentation tool.

tz is an interactive TUI program that displays time across the time zones of your choosing.

How to use SSLKEYLOGFILE and Wireshark to decrypt HTTPS traffic.