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Oscar Bonilla

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Posts
62 from 13 Apr 2005 to 11 Aug 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 2

  1. Emacs reborn
  2. The Artisan and the Engineer

2015 4

  1. How to Choose a Programming Font
  2. How to Pair Fonts
  3. How to Choose a Font
  4. Meet the New Blog, Much Better than the Old Blog

2014 2

  1. Does practice really matter that much?
  2. Could this recent Apple Bug be a bad merge?

2013 2

  1. Why I don’t trust rankings
  2. Bayes' Theorem Using Trimmed Trees

2012 1

  1. Fun with Caches

2011 3

  1. Mersenne Primes
  2. Radiation
  3. Distrust

2010 11

  1. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
  2. Doing it wrong
  3. A neat trick for emailing web pages
  4. Think, don’t Blink!
  5. iPhone killer? Again?
  6. Lucia de Berk
  7. Pigeons Beat Students at Probabilities
  8. Probabilities
  9. Mandoline my ass…​
  10. Unleash the power of the atom…​ to boil water?
  11. Enjoying Life (a little more)

2009 4

  1. Proof that P=NP
  2. The Two Envelopes Problem
  3. The Monty Hall problem
  4. Visualizing Bayes’ theorem

2008 10

  1. Is that possible?
  2. Simple Guide to Complexity Theory
  3. The case against snippets
  4. Another useless C99 tidbit
  5. Haskell
  6. Hidden Gems in C99 (1)
  7. Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption
  8. Tête de Moine and…​ Challah?
  9. Beautiful Emacs (Windows Edition)
  10. Lazy-loading emacs functionality

2007 7

  1. Leave a door open (for Peace)
  2. Vive la différence
  3. Timeo Facebook et dona ferentes
  4. Norton Fighter
  5. Beautiful Emacs
  6. The Apple Experience
  7. Meet the new Blog, same as the old Blog

2006 3

  1. Code Tells You How, Revision History Tells You Why
  2. Spotlight (part deux)
  3. Spotlight must die (or get its act straight)

2005 13

  1. I’m human, so sue me
  2. A nerdish way to spend an evening
  3. First BitMover Regatta
  4. Unix died in 1982
  5. Yet Another Stupid Idea
  6. Judge this Book by its Cover
  7. The Lennon Syndrome
  8. Windows 2000: got pid?
  9. Apple’s CoreData
  10. Flame Wars Galore
  11. I know how to program in…​
  12. Sun NVRAM Madness
  13. Why a free BitKeeper clone was a bad idea (which time had come)