Evaluating Compression with Pareto, Docker and Gnuplot.

The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes.

Burning out and quitting.

Ranking is a farce. Apparent performance is actually attributable mostly to the system that the individual works in, not to the individual himself. — Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming

Why are hyperlinks blue?. TL;DR Mosaic former project use blue in its release notes.

Why I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks.

Moldable Emacs: Vega-Lite, Nyxt and Emacs towards sustainable development. #emacs

Emacs, for me, is essentially the definition of tooling alcoholism because I can happily spend hours configuring it without actually achieving much at all.
Some of this extends to tools like org-agenda too. There’s a temptation to have Emacs do it all and so I end up breaking my existing systems just to make them fit. — Emacs probably isn’t right for me

The missing method: Deleting from Okasaki’s red-black trees. #racket

BSD is designed. Linux is grown. Perhaps that’s the only succinct way to describe it, and possibly the most correct. — BSD vs Linux