Room 101

How do we resolve the classic tension between WYSIWYG and markup . Alas, one can't explain that properly in blogger, but if you follow t...

Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Samuel Johnson I wish t...

This post is based on a invited talk I gave recently at the Programming 22 conference. The talk wasn't recorded but I've recorde...

Blogging platforms like Blogger are totally inadequate, because they don't support embedding interactive code in posts. So this is just ...

"Why do you jackasses use these inferior linguistic vehicles when we have something here that’s so precious, so elegant, which gives m...

Programmers are always talking about broken builds: "The build is broken", "I broke the build" etc. However, the real ...

What sweet nothing does the title refers to? It could be about null, but it in fact will say nothing about that. The nothing in question is ...