Archive
August 2019
Fix it yourself 13 August 2019
July 2019
Why We Encrypt 18 July 2019
May 2019
Democracy as an Information System 18 May 2019
April 2018
Oversharing? 7 April 2018
September 2016
The Most Ancient Music Known To Man 17 September 2016
September 2015
I Could Care Less 18 September 2015
August 2015
How to change text fields to a real UUID type for Django and PostgreSQL 28 August 2015
I made a cell phone 18 August 2015
June 2015
How to adjust car mirrors correctly 12 June 2015
April 2015
Passwords for the Manly Man 14 April 2015
February 2015
A Cooking Show For The Rest Of Us 19 February 2015
SpiderOak is serious about privacy 19 February 2015
September 2014
How the sun sees you 26 September 2014
Fame and the Internet 25 September 2014
What is Functional Programming? 19 September 2014
David Mitchell on Machines 5 September 2014
August 2014
Posting a sentry 15 August 2014
June 2014
Developers Don’t Just Build 12 June 2014
May 2014
Thinking Like A Bézier Path 28 May 2014
Balance Your NSNotification Observers 2 May 2014
April 2014
A Conference Call in Real Life 16 April 2014
Stuff 13 April 2014
Let's Photograph All Life 13 April 2014
Stepping Into The Future 10 April 2014
The Future of Programming 10 April 2014
Heartbleed Bug 10 April 2014
Virtualised Radio 7 April 2014
The Expert 3 April 2014
February 2014
A Whine About NSDate 27 February 2014
Make One And Pass It On 2 February 2014
November 2013
Defining the term Unit Test 27 November 2013
What Screens Want 24 November 2013
The Overview Effect 20 November 2013
Software quality in the wider world 13 November 2013
October 2013
Government Transparency 22 October 2013
Why Great Software Takes Time 10 October 2013
Change The Way You Look At The World 3 October 2013
September 2013
You Need A Budget 10 September 2013
August 2013
Re-signing Enterprise iOS apps 5 August 2013
May 2013
One Stilt At A Time 10 May 2013
A Giant Notice Board 8 May 2013
Is TDD worth it? 6 May 2013
April 2013
A Good Overview of Bitcoin and Currency 23 April 2013
February 2013
So How Is Poverty, Anyway? 14 February 2013
Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style 12 February 2013
January 2013
Route requests based on the HTTP Accept header in Django 15 January 2013
October 2012
Air Play is not Air Work 18 October 2012
September 2012
Brilliantly Bad Networking 27 September 2012
July 2012
Paying the ARC __bridge toll 31 July 2012
Bass Bored 20 July 2012
Four Minutes of 'English' 16 July 2012
Signing code 15 July 2012
How hard can it be? 10 July 2012
Technical Debt 9 July 2012
June 2012
How To Get Strong 14 June 2012
Get Paid More 13 June 2012
Prepare for Zombie Attack 9 June 2012
Buying Happiness 6 June 2012
Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes 5 June 2012
May 2012
Do not let this happen 29 May 2012
Words that don't exist in English 29 May 2012
A simple git workflow 22 May 2012
Apps and websites 15 May 2012
The Graphing Calculator story 9 May 2012
Amazing Dancing 5 May 2012
Motivating children to learn 5 May 2012
Self evaluation 5 May 2012
April 2012
Forgetting Your Life Expectancy 28 April 2012
John Cleese explains how to foster creativity 28 April 2012
Stay Conscious and Alive 28 April 2012
Talking with your hands 27 April 2012
Why is Estimating so Hard? 26 April 2012
Overthinking 1 April 2012
January 2012
Not Piracy 18 January 2012
Educating about character 16 January 2012
Perspective 15 January 2012
Memory Myths 15 January 2012
Australian Exceptionalism 9 January 2012
The rising importance of Free (as in speech) Software 3 January 2012
December 2011
Threw It On The Ground 28 December 2011
The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of his high school teachers 22 December 2011
October 2011
Apple - Remembering Steve Jobs 6 October 2011
September 2011
George Lucas Strikes Back {HD Trailer} - YouTube 22 September 2011
CUergo: Sitting and Standing 22 September 2011
Why Some Languages Sound So Fast - TIME 11 September 2011
Daring Fireball Linked List: Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth 6 September 2011
August 2011
xkcd: Password Strength 18 August 2011
How to Liberate Your Data from Google (And Why It Matters That You Can) 4 August 2011
July 2011
David Mitchell's Soapbox: Blurry logos on TV sport - video 20 July 2011
David Mitchell's Soapbox: LOL - video 3 July 2011
June 2011
xkcd: Connoisseur 26 June 2011
April 2011
How the iPhone knows where you are | Phones | Macworld 30 April 2011
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | Video on TED.com 28 April 2011
Moving bikes stay upright but not for the reasons we thought 20 April 2011
Git Cheatsheet 20 April 2011
March 2011
ignore the code: Skype 5 for Mac 31 March 2011
C++ Internals | www.avabodh.com 31 March 2011
Carbon Tax 28 March 2011
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's Star Wars - CollegeHumor video 16 March 2011
Australia’s Justice & Police Museum exhibition: Crooks | Monoscope 15 March 2011
February 2011
Real Life Model of M.C. Escher’s “Waterfall” 18 February 2011
Schneier on Security: Societal Security 16 February 2011
The Escapist : Video Galleries : Zero Punctuation : iPhone Games 11 February 2011
January 2011
Great animation: why we can't walk straight - Boing Boing 11 January 2011
People Who Touch Your Junk Venn - Chart Porn 6 January 2011
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 6 January 2011
December 2010
How to Make Wealth 21 December 2010
Mobile Opportunity: What's really wrong with BlackBerry (and what to do about it) 15 December 2010
What the F-86 can teach us about software development - Managing Metrics 10 December 2010
Were atoms real? - Less Wrong 10 December 2010
Tablets 6 December 2010
Remiel: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook 6 December 2010
After secrets: Missing the point of WikiLeaks | The Economist 2 December 2010
Movie Quotes - Subzin.com 1 December 2010
November 2010
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web 19 November 2010
“Son, as soon as someone puts their hands on you…” | SebastianMarshall.com 12 November 2010
growth, diet, obesity, nutrition, tall children, short children 11 November 2010
CENTER OF PHONE ETIQUETTE 10 November 2010
The Agile Inception Deck « The Agile Warrior 9 November 2010
Altar egos | smh.com.au 8 November 2010
YouTube - BEN KENOBI: PRIVATE JEDEYE 3 November 2010
Flash Vs HTML5 3 November 2010
Australian Innovation: Misunderstanding the brain is bad for business 3 November 2010
October 2010
Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool 28 October 2010
Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you 25 October 2010
YouTube - Original District 9 Short Film 19 October 2010
YouTube - 8-Bit Dr. Horrible (Act 1) 18 October 2010
Canvas Rider 13 October 2010
September 2010
Uncle Bob - The Three Rules Of TDD 30 September 2010
YTTM.tv - Pick a year, click refresh, and TRAVEL THROUGH TIME. 28 September 2010
Children under four and children with autism don't yawn contagiously 17 September 2010
VexFlow - HTML5 Music Engraving 16 September 2010
Penn and Teller interview - Telegraph 16 September 2010
Bill Murray on Ghostbusters 3, Get Low, Ron Howard, and Kung Fu Hustle: Celebrities: GQ 16 September 2010
xkcd: Password Reuse 14 September 2010
Bouncing Beholder [JS1k entry] 14 September 2010
Biolab Disaster 14 September 2010
Contrast | The Blog | There are no small changes 9 September 2010
Domestic Conflict, Explained By Stock Photos « The Bygone Bureau 8 September 2010
Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels | UXMovement.com 2 September 2010
August 2010
Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott 17 August 2010
Words on Devour.com 13 August 2010
CBC News - World - A split in linguistic personalities 13 August 2010
Questions and Answers on the JailbreakMe Vulnerability - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab 11 August 2010
Letters of Note: The Tiger Oil Memos 11 August 2010
The Psychology of Happy Passwords - Blog - Our Writing - Ordered List 5 August 2010
YouTube - English Swear Words 3 August 2010
Halo 2600 by Ed Fries 3 August 2010
July 2010
Mac & the iPad 31 July 2010
The Setup 26 July 2010
The Top Idea in Your Mind 23 July 2010
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning 8 July 2010
YouTube - Rinocerose - Cubicle 2 July 2010
Matthew Yglesias » Another Reason for Congestion Pricing 2 July 2010
June 2010
Remiel: 17 June 2010
Create Your Own Happiness: Make Feeling Good Your New Religion | tinybuddha.com 13 June 2010
When can I use... 7 June 2010
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide 4 June 2010
May 2010
Ask a Korean!: The Korean's English Acquisition, and the Best Method to Master a Foreign Language, Guaranteed 27 May 2010
YouTube - The latest version of the LittleDog Robot 26 May 2010
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com 26 May 2010
YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive 25 May 2010
Wire Stories Details 24 May 2010
Video JS | HTML5 Video Player 24 May 2010
LongURL | The Universal Way to Expand Shortened URLs 24 May 2010
This is how Apple rolls | Tablets | Macworld 17 May 2010
inessential.com: The non-linear relationship of coding effort and results 12 May 2010
Spark (attrakt.se) 11 May 2010
Motivation 11 May 2010
Games from Within | Going The iPad Way: All You Wanted to Know About Creating Universal Apps 11 May 2010
Understand The Web · Ben Ward 7 May 2010
ongoing by Tim Bray · HTML5 and the Web 7 May 2010
What Every Developer Should Know About URLs 5 May 2010
The New Yorker: From the Archives: Content 5 May 2010
Your Office Chair Is Killing You - BusinessWeek 3 May 2010
April 2010
TouchScroll, a scrolling layer for WebKit mobile [update] « Uxebu.com – the Ajax and JavaScript Experts 30 April 2010
Blowing up HTML5 video and mapping it into 3D space « Craftymind 22 April 2010
Akihabara 22 April 2010
HTML5 presentation 20 April 2010
"Infographic" on Flickr - Photo Sharing! 12 April 2010
March 2010
tecosystems » Why I Am Against Software Patents 25 March 2010
Dissecting iTunes links 25 March 2010
Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts 25 March 2010
The Story of Bottled Water 23 March 2010
YouTube - Cycles 19 March 2010
Still waiting for my HTTP-scanner. (Scripting News) 17 March 2010
Helen Fisher studies the brain in love | Video on TED.com 17 March 2010
Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Video on TED.com 17 March 2010
Best of the Past: Trainer Tells All – What I Have Learned About Health and Fitness – Fitness Spotlight : Fitness Spotlight 17 March 2010
Corporate Information - Our Philosophy 16 March 2010
Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka « adamantine 10 March 2010
Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie 4 March 2010
I read a lot of threads about being lonely, sad or unhappy in general. : reddit.com 4 March 2010
February 2010
Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com 24 February 2010
The Danger of Lying in Bed 24 February 2010
Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010) « fox @ fury 24 February 2010
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food | Video on TED.com 23 February 2010
Clients From Hell : Client [A California law firm]: “For the home page... 18 February 2010
Cell phone subscriptions to hit 5 billion globally | 3GSM blog - CNET Reviews 18 February 2010
YouTube - The Muppets: Beaker's Ballad 12 February 2010
YouTube - SOUR 日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro) 9 February 2010
HTML5 Theora Video Codec for Silverlight | Alp Toker 9 February 2010
Twitter Reactions - Google Chrome extension gallery 8 February 2010
DVCS for Enterprise use 1 February 2010
January 2010
How to Pare Your To-do List Down to the Essentials - Stepcase Lifehack 25 January 2010
Op-Ed Columnist - The Happiest People - NYTimes.com 8 January 2010
Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code! 7 January 2010
The Third & The Seventh on Vimeo 7 January 2010
December 2009
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling - The Oatmeal 31 December 2009
PBS | Ombudsman | Lehrer's Rules 24 December 2009
Watch This: 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace | /Film 23 December 2009
The Known Universe Scientifically Rendered For All to See | American Museum of Natural History News 23 December 2009
Panic Blog » Q: “Once in a blue moon” is a rare event. But what does “blue moon” really mean? 23 December 2009
A Brief History Of The English Language 23 December 2009
Life 18 December 2009
Why Are Europeans White? (E1) - a knol by Frank W Sweet 15 December 2009
Change blindness experiment - Boing Boing 15 December 2009
35 Powerful Photos That Tell A Story - Noupe 11 December 2009
BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Psychologists find a drug-free way for fears to be unlearned 10 December 2009
YouTube - [HD]自主制作アニメーション『the TV show』 8 December 2009
RCA student radically improves the UK plug | ICON MAGAZINE ONLINE 7 December 2009
Alex Payne — Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity 7 December 2009
New Zealand Book Council: Going West - Video - Creativity Online 3 December 2009
How the brain filters out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information 3 December 2009
Compass: Did Darwin Kill God? - ABC TV 2 December 2009
November 2009
The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids 26 November 2009
Local branches and patch queues 5 November 2009
April 2008
Food with attitude 14 April 2008
August 2007
A fix for password prompts when using SharePoint from Office 2007 on Windows Vista 16 August 2007
July 2007
The best Mac Terminal services (remote desktop) client 17 July 2007
December 2006
Safety warning for copy protection 18 December 2006
Making Plone work with Apache and Active Directory on Mac OS X 18 December 2006
January 2006
Windows 2000 full cpu load issue 20 January 2006
December 2005
Users and software - clicking dialogs 15 December 2005
Lessons learned in error handling 15 December 2005
FreeBSD ports via authenticated proxy firewall 15 December 2005
March 2005
You know what *that* means 1 March 2005
November 2004
Microsoft Windows Scheduled Tasks 4 November 2004
September 2004
First Post! 23 September 2004