For awhile we thought all the unicode characters were going to fit in 2 bytes. Aah it was a heady time. Forward looking companies like Microsoft, Apple, Sun and Netscape started using arrays of 2-byte integers to store characters using an encoding called UCS-2. But the unicode consortium just kept…
At work we've been working on a web framework that does realtime collaborate editing called Derby. We just released version 0.5, which is kinda exciting because it has all my work in it. Checkit: http://blog.derbyjs.com/2013/06/04/derby-v0-dot-5-0/…
This is a repost from my old tumblr blog from March 19 A month ago I got hired by Lever and moved over to San Francisco. We're building an applicant tracking system for hiring. Its a realtime web app built on top of Derby and Racer, which is a web…
Note: Since writing this, I've moved to ghost. There comes a time in every programmer's life where they have to write their own blog engine. In my case, I moved away from tumblr because I don't how to write github flavoured markdown code using it. So I edited Jeremy Apthorp's…
I recently read A plea for better opensource etiquette. Its basically a whinge about github pull requests and issues getting ignored. This is a really hard topic, because opensource work is mostly volunteer work, and everyone gets precious about their contributions. But most people have no idea what its actually…
I'm living in America, and I don't trust the government here. They read my text messages and my email and they can get access to anything my cloud providers store on me. I also don't trust Saudi Arabia with my data. Why should I? I didn't mind this sort of…