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New Jan 13, 2026
Monky Business: Creating a Cistercian Numerals Generator
In the 13th century Cistercian monks came up with a way to show the numbers from 1 to 9999 as a single character. The way it works is to add the lines of different characters to each other until the...
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New Jan 2, 2026
You are already behind by not having read this post.
Lately, I have found an incredibly annoying pattern in social media—especially LinkedIn posts: the “you are already behind” posts, claiming that by not using product $XYZ you have...
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New Dec 26, 2025
Building my faux lego advent calendar feels like current software development
I’ve stated on several occasions that Lego made me a developer. I was the youngest of four kids who inherited a huge box of bricks with no instruction booklets. So I took lots of smaller bits to...
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New Dec 17, 2025
Ad Blockers helped kill the open web
The other day I found out that you can watch YouTube in Albania without ads. Personally I pay for YouTube and I think it is worth while, but I found that curious. Reasons might be that Google has no...
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New Nov 24, 2025
Shuffling a CSS grid using custom properties
In his excellent talk Get the Core Right and the Resilient Code Will Follow at Beyond Tellerrand in Berlin this year, Andy Bell showed how to sensibly discuss a coding issue amongst your team. He also...