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2026 1

  1. How I Write

2024 3

  1. Show Your Working
  2. Reputation
  3. Visually Validate Date Ranges

2023 4

  1. Intense
  2. GopherConSG 2023 - A Retrospective
  3. Ween
  4. Letter to the Editor

2021 5

  1. Quickly Annotate Your Machine Learning Dataset with One Weird Trick (It's Lisp)
  2. Random Thoughts on Empathy and Compassion, and Neural Pathways
  3. The BNF Dream
  4. On The Basics of Modeling
  5. The SARS-CoV-2 Build Log

2020 2

  1. Double Your Linear Search Speed with This One Weird Trick
  2. Some Thoughts On Library Design

2019 4

  1. 31482
  2. The Y-Combinator MBA Project
  3. Writing Clearly is Clearly Hard
  4. Go is a Pretty Average Language

2018 7

  1. A Most Vivid Dream
  2. Deceptively Simple Is Deceptively Simple
  3. Namespaces Are Useful
  4. Do You Need Deep Learning?
  5. How To Use Go Interfaces
  6. Tuples Are Powerful
  7. Term Rewriting Chinese Relatives

2017 11

  1. Go For Data Science
  2. Data Empathy, Data Sympathy
  3. Sapir-Whorf on Programming Languages
  4. Tensor Refactor: A Go Experience Report
  5. Garbage Collection is Also a Side Effect
  6. 21 Bits Ought to Be Enough for (Everyday) English
  7. The Double Blind Monty Hall Problem
  8. The Handmaid's Tale
  9. Deep Learning from Scratch in Go
  10. New Blog
  11. What To Test

2016 12

  1. A Direct Way of Understanding Backpropagation and Gradient Descent
  2. Advent of Code/Go
  3. Numbers are Weird, Man
  4. How To Make Money
  5. Gorgonia
  6. Yes and No
  7. On the memory alignment of Go slice values
  8. On Binary Classification of Human Beings
  9. Bloody Side Tracking Brain
  10. Batman v Superman – A Quick Thought
  11. Not Enough
  12. Naming Things Poorly

2015 16

  1. On Buying A New Vacuum Cleaner
  2. Holy Crap I've Got Abs (Kinda)
  3. Yagni
  4. An Apology
  5. Go Test Files Are Part of the Same Package
  6. Whole Fruit Espresso
  7. Intuitions From The Price Equation
  8. The Skynet Argument Against Social Media
  9. Addendum/Errata for “Monads, In My Python?”
  10. Algorithms Are Chaotic Neutral
  11. Operator Overloading With Right Associativity In Python
  12. Writing... Again
  13. Designing SquatCoach
  14. The Bane of Communicating Succinctly
  15. Just Fair
  16. Logarithmic

2014 26

  1. Naming Things (They're All Named Lucy)
  2. Small Languages
  3. The Dinner Party Around the World
  4. Alternate Names For TV Shows
  5. The Nanjing Taxi
  6. Meta For The Last Two Posts
  7. The Long Term Plan
  8. A Fantastic Account of Wanting To Change The World Through Literary Devices
  9. China Retrospective 2014
  10. The Ancient Great Capitals of China + Hangzhou Retrospective 2014
  11. Beijing Retrospective 2014
  12. Two Ways of Thinking
  13. Eyetracking Jetpack Joyride, Smash Hit and Dungeon Keeper
  14. Configuration Management Tools As Operating Systems
  15. JavaScript Books Published!
  16. Overdrive
  17. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To A/B Testing
  18. Rubber Ducky Debugging
  19. What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About Floating Point Numbers
  20. You Should Roast Your Coffee In Two Stages (Now Comes With: OpenCV Tricks!)
  21. The Switchless Switch
  22. Javascript: Wat, Again
  23. Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?
  24. “I Should Get A Tablet”
  25. What I Did When Hacker News Went Down
  26. First Trip, 2014

2013 33

  1. Programming is Fun
  2. A Tale of Productivity
  3. Does Inflation Happen in Hell?
  4. Notes on Installing OpenCV in a Vagrant Box
  5. Pointer Tagging in Go
  6. A Tour of Coca Cola Amatil's Distribution Centre
  7. Don't Be A Gearhead
  8. Thor: The Dark World
  9. Latte Art As Signalling
  10. etaoinshrdlucmfwypvbgkjqxz
  11. etaoin shrdlu cmfwyp vbgkjq xz
  12. Why 1 && 2 == 2
  13. Favourites
  14. Do Not Expect Breakthroughs
  15. Man of Steel
  16. Dry Spell
  17. I Want To Be That
  18. Enunciate
  19. Obsessive Frenzy
  20. Hackers and Engineers
  21. Agile All The Things
  22. Out of Phase
  23. You Mean You Didn't Know?
  24. An Aversion To Ship
  25. Harper's Index
  26. The Importance of Staying Lean
  27. Startup Business Models: Advertising
  28. Objectively Piss Poor
  29. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  30. Like a Bachelor
  31. Lost Faith In Humanity
  32. Programming Languages as Driving Experiences
  33. Still Alive (And Happy New Year)

2012 12

  1. Random Documents from CouchDB
  2. The Best. Really?
  3. How Long Before 1st Accepted Answer on StackOverflow?
  4. Fine With Utilitarian Dining
  5. Magic, Lost
  6. A Fictional Account of a Group of Men Changing the World
  7. Not Everyone Shares Your Passion and/or Commitment
  8. How My Brain Runs Away
  9. A Better Passenger Boarding System (BTW, Jetstar Sucks)
  10. Pie All The Things!
  11. 500Words # 1 - The photos on my phone
  12. Of Milk Bubbles and Problem Solving

2011 31

  1. Two Letters
  2. 4 2
  3. Appearances Matter (Ergonomically)
  4. Getting Into the Flow of Things
  5. Advice from the Wise
  6. In Which I Brag About Brand Safety
  7. What You Love; What You Are Good At
  8. No Longer Sleeping On the Floor
  9. Polish, Passivity, Privacy, Pressyo
  10. The Economics of Andrew Niccol's In Time
  11. Dynamically Loading Content in Twitter Bootstrap Tabs
  12. Question Time Visualized
  13. One Point Five Hours
  14. Just a Regular Conversation
  15. God, Queen and Country - A Rant on Fairness
  16. First World Problems
  17. The Burqa is Immoral
  18. Questioning My Sanity and Ethics
  19. A Response to “Atheism is a Faith”
  20. It's About Organ Donation, OK?
  21. Startups and Opportunity
  22. Minority Game Applied on the Long Weekend
  23. Etymological Misrepresentation
  24. Hainanese Chicken Rice, A Recipe
  25. You Don't Mess With Food
  26. One Million
  27. Misrepresentation and Respect
  28. For Your Curiosity
  29. Run by a Scientist
  30. Brain Chemicals
  31. 2011, New Blog