The Meditative Coder

Vi Hart posted an important video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRQxk9QA-o Please watch it. Full report:   https://ethics.harvard....

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000007072121/queen-address.html (You have to click the little "speaker" in the low...

Max Brooks PSA about Corona Virus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DthdYTLiqcI

Sorry, no computer software today. I see that Ivan Maximov, one of my favorite animators, has finally released his latest work: " ...

A while ago I migrated from a traditional hosting service to GitHub. One thing I lost in the process was access to a mediawiki installation ...

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...

Gahan Wilson, creator of hilariously macabre cartoons, died last Thursday. His dark creations helped to shape my own sense of humor, even th...

I saw something on SlashDot that raised the question: should all school children learn to code? Yes. For the same reason all school chil...

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...

I happened on this today.  The article is narrowly-focused on Linux kernel work, but in my mind it helps to clarify a lot of "volatile...

This post is a little late in coming as I made the change earlier this year. I used to use a hosting service, suso.com ,  for my main webs...

The scanf() family of functions ( man page ) are used to parse ascii input into fields and convert those fields into desired data types.  I...

A Slashdot post led me to some good pages related to C safety. https://outflux.net/slides/2018/lss/danger.pdf  - slides from a presentati...

Here's a fragment of code that I recently wrote.  See anything wrong with it? #define VOL(_var, _type) (*(volatile _type *)&(_var)...

I got an unsolicited sales inquiry from a major company the other day.  Each day, 10 to 20 junk emails make it through our spam filter.  Usu...