Stories by ColinWright

What's in a Shadow?

Interactive Data Visualization for the Web

The Vim Learning Curve Is a Myth

Lunar Surface Flown Apollo 11 Artifacts from the Neil Armstrong Estate

How to Interview a Programmer (2003)

A magnetic oddity [video]

Grammar crusader spends years removing repeated error 47,000 times on Wikipedia

Myth: The astronauts didn’t float away because they had heavy boots

Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour [pdf]

I'm ready to love Windows again

Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job

Memory matters, even in Erlang (2010)

Memory matters – even in Erlang

The Quantum Experiment That Simulates a Time Machine

Why has the search system broken the “Back” button?

What do you think about machines that think?

Sleeping hard and working under your desk

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

The Real Kings of Chess Are Computers

SpaceX booster crash: Video and pictures