2020-01-17

Yesterday, I wrote about the risk of thinking in public. More generally, about being a public figure. Today, I read Steve Klabnik's post on harassment in the Rust community, a community otherwise known for being welcoming. We humans have a tendency to take things for granted, and toward groupthink.

2019-07-18

You'd think Google tests their websites extensively. Especially one of their flagship products, such as google.com. Especially the main page. I'm sure they do, but testing GUI across all browsers and screen sizes is difficult. A screenshot of google.com from June 21, 2019, in Tor Browser.

2019-05-26

A couple of months back, I added site search to this blog, created as a static website. Such a website consists of just HTML, CSS, Javascript and media, with no backend code or database for fetching data that the browser requests.

2019-05-21

C3.js is a nice charting library, easy to include on a webpage. At work, we created an Angular wrapper, for easy use. Its API is fairly intuitive and minimal, and the standard settings and styling are quite good. Being based on D3.

2019-05-18

I intend to explore how to host videos on a virtual private server (VPS), but I'm not there yet. In this post, I'll just give a motivation for why this would be worth-while. Let's say you wish to publish a video to the world.

2019-05-08

When reading code that's hard to understand, I like to gradually remove annoyances. First, I'll reformat the code, so that it follows the style guide of the rest of the project. Second, I'll rename functions and variables to better explain their purpose.

2019-04-01

Daylight saving time (DST) further complicates the already convoluted timezone handling in applications. This has both good and bad consequences, but as a programmer, I frequently worry that the systems I work with will handle DST incorrectly. In the last year, I have been working extensively on a system, where we transmit and store dates and times in the local timezone, but never explicitly stating what that timezone is.