taw's blog

It might sound like I'm tackling a long solved problem here - sort_by{rand}[0, n] is a well known idiom, and in more recent versions o...

In good Unix tradition if a program generates some data, in general it should write it to STDOUT, and you'll redirect it to the right ...

This solution is really really simple, has plenty of precedent in history, and yet I haven't heard it proposed seriously by anyone befo...

This is surprisingly difficult to find out, so I decided to share the results with everyone. But first, background: Animals need omega-3 a...

Here a quick poll, pick the most fitting answer: I spend too much time on the Internet, and I'm aware of this I spend too much time o...

Rome Total War was highly moddable. Medieval 2 Total War somewhat less as all data files were in obfuscated packages - but once you unpacke...

Last year I wrote a short Greasemonkey tutorial , in which I explained how to use it with jQuery for some really simple scripts. Since then...

May 20th is Everybody Draw Mohammed Day - a day when you too can join the defense of Free Speech by drawing a cartoon. Or if you really suc...

I hate waiting. And all too often when I tell computer to do stuff, the only reply I get is a progress bar with ETA far in the future. ...

Online distribution of content should be cheap and easy. Compared to the complexities of making and moving around DVDs and such, moving bits...