Stories by Tomte

A Brief Defense of XML

Developing an Open Source Bike Computer

What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? (2022)

Fixing slow Firefox loading when using Pi-Hole (2020)

William Byrd on Logic and Relational Programming, miniKanren (2014)

The wear patterns of your jeans aren’t good forensic evidence (2020)

Darktable 4.2.0 released: Major features added to the open-source Raw editor

Stone Age humans stepped out in cave bear fur 300k years ago

Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe (2019)

Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages

Lenovo Made a Kindle Scribe

Savoy Ballroom

Women's Pockets are Inferior (2018)

IBM Security Command Center Mobile

The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy (2019)

US Soldiers Expose Nuclear Weapons Secrets via Flashcard Apps (2021)

Why SQLite succeeded as a database (2016)

The Curious Case of the Weapon That Didn’t Exist (2016)

Two surprises in browser crashes

IRC: Run it or use it, but try to avoid doing both (2021)