Stories by Tomte

Readings in Databases

Learn to Read Russian in 15 Minutes

Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It? (2021) [pdf]

Learning Rust in 2024

Russian doll caching in Rails (2018)

Incentives Matter (2006)

You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes (2002)

Face Cams: The Missing Guide

Patterns of personal knowledge base (2023)

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)

Exceptional One-Minute Short Films

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of "just go independent"

My Teenage Son Does Not Know How to Mail a Letter, and I Blame Technology (2023)

Character Amnesia in China

Google's DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other

Why Is It So Hard to Define a Species?

For the strongest disc golf throws, it's all in the thumbs