#infrequent-miscellany

Infrequent Miscellany Update

27 Mar 2020

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Infrequent Miscellany #5

26 Nov 2019

Play Tetris & Snake in your browser, at the same time. This is hard, really hard! Good luck A cool little macOS menubar app, Up Next, to show when/where your next meeting is. Space...

Infrequent Miscellany #4

28 Oct 2019

The relationship between time, the sun and the earth seems simple, but it is far from that. The blog post, Earth and Sun from Bartosz Ciechanowski, goes deep in to this relationship complete with...

Infrequent Miscellany #3

14 Oct 2019

This time: Flash, email, deep work & nuclear weapons Flash is responsible for the internet's most creative era 🔗 Flash may well be dead but it had a good run and was responsible for some...

Infrequent Miscellany #2

22 Sep 2019

This time: Postgres deep dive, tech stack, HTML attributes, machine learning and 21/9 How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic 🔗 A very detailed (including a break down of the source code!) writeup of how PostgreSQL maintains...

Infrequent Miscellany #1

11 Sep 2019

This time: HTML email, Basecamp's development processes, chiptunes and DeepFakes HTML email client feature support tables 🔗 If you need to find out if a given HTML element, CSS property or JavaScript feature is supported...

Introducing Infrequent Miscellany

9 Sep 2019

It's been a while since I've written regularly. To attempt to get back in to the habit I'm launching Infrequent Miscellany, an occasional digest of the latest interesting, weird and/or funny technology developments. I'll try...

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