The Meditative Coder

In addition to being a software developer, I'm also a little bit of a DIY handyman. Not a very good one - I'm not one to make things...

 Gabriel's horn is not a paradox. The "Gabriel's horn paradox" (sometimes called "the painter's paradox") is...

Nick Cave doesn't like ChatGPT. Somebody asked Chat to compose a song in the style of Nick Cave. Nick didn't like it , calling it ...

I saw an article about a teacher who got an essay from a student that was well-written. Maybe too-well written. Turns out the student used a...

So, ChatGPT is at capacity right now, and I'm sure not going to sit here and hit refresh every few seconds to try to get in. So I went t...

Wow, a non-math nerd posting twice about math. What's that about? Derek Muller of Veritasium  posted a video about the  100 prisoners p...

 I'm not a math nerd, so I probably shouldn't be posting on this subject. But when has a lack of expertise ever stopped me from havi...

 I mentioned buying a Keychron K2 keyboard almost two years ago, but that post was primarily about a different vendor's keyboard which ...

I normally don't do product or vendor shilling on this blog. But I've always liked Peter Lankford at STAC , and I think he did a goo...

Like many Mac owners, I don't like the chiclet keyboards. I like an old-fashioned mechanical keyboard. So I finally got one: a very clic...

I am in awe of the results of the Event Horizon Telescope team in their image of M87* , the supermassive black hole at the center of a dist...

Good for you!  You're taking the advice of experts and clicking "Generate Password", resulting in 10 characters of gibberish. ...

I got to thinking about passwords again today. I wrote my own program to produce XKCD-style passwords from a list of 2126 common words, ...

I'm not a security researcher, and I don't follow the subject very closely.  But here is an interesting read by the person who slowe...

UPDATE: C.H.I.P. is dead Or rather, the company is dead.  I will keep my CHIP content laying around, but I won't be doing much with it...

A woman named Margaret. https://medium.com/@3fingeredfox/margaret-hamilton-lead-software-engineer-project-apollo-158754170da8 More info...

I suffer from a little bit of hero worship for Grace Hopper (1906 - 1992).  She is often credited with writing the first compiler in 1952,...

I disagree with a lot of "password strength" measures.  Most measures want you to include upper and lower case, digits, special ch...

No, syncookies don't have anything to do with dieting.  But they did come up as I learned that the TCP listen backlog is more complicat...

If you are receiving UDP datagrams (multicast or unicast, no difference), how much socket buffer does a datagram consume?  I.e. how many da...