programming and human factors
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network . Naming things is hard, and we almost voted on the name, like we did for Stack Overflow , but we quickly landed on Off By One with
It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have two things to say. First, I'm really glad we re-ordered the GMI (Guaranteed
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream : 1. Support organizations you feel are  effectively helping  those most in need across America right now . 2. Within the next five years, also contribute  public dedications
The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to  stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? ( Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it , but don’t stop there – read the Story of Your Life novella it was based on
If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s a busy time. But let’s pause and take a moment
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career . With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is over , because PC upgrades have gotten really boring . It took 5 years for me to muster
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing , battery costs  must  be decreasing, because it’s not like the cost of fabricating rubber, aluminum, glass, and steel into car shapes can decline that much,
I’ve never thought of myself as a “car person.” The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the  first  new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT . Since then, we bought a
When I wrote about  App-pocalypse Now  in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it’s also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have
When we started  Discourse  in 2013, our server requirements were high: 1GB RAM modern, fast dual core CPU speedy solid state drive with 20+ GB I’m not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server, either, I mean a dedicated virtual private server with those specifications. We