Journal of a Programmer

I was not paying attention, and did not understand the severity of the problems with lead levels in drinking water in the Oakland Unified...

I'm very sad to hear that Phil Lesh passed away . I'll be listening to Box of Rain a lot for a while now. That song has alwa...

It's incredibly embarassing that, for essentially my entire adult life, I thought that Stanislaw Ulam and Stanislaw Lem were one an...

Earlier this month I found myself reading Is Earth Exceptional? by Livio and Szostak. This is a popular science book (that is, not a...

We were wandering through the back pages of one of our local neighborhood publications, and we spotted a quite unusual help wanted ad. ...

I happened to take a vacation to France, and I was looking for a book to take on the trip. I ended up picking several books, and then the...

I didn't visit AnandTech very often, but when I did, I found high-quality carefully written material. It seemed to have sustained tha...