Stories by dcminter

European space probe zips past Mercury

Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)

Shahid Kamal Ahmad's origin story

What if Bitcoin went to zero?

Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side languages?

A Nerd Cool Miscellanea

The Astronomer's Nose: Tycho Brahe's Controversial Prosthesis (2017)

Marginalia of Web Design (1996)

Show Your Stripes

Blackbird (Land Yacht)

Post Mortem: Incorrect Cache Configuration Exposes Personal Information

The Heathkit Legacy (2013)

Stanford Bunny

An Elegant Sufficiency, or the Curious Case of a Victorian Meme (2018)

The Pitchblende of Cornwall, England (1915) [pdf]

Cryptic crosswords: A puzzling British obsession

The Twelve-Factor App

Robin Hood hashing should be your default Hash Table implementation (2013)

Is there truth to the philosophy that you should sync;sync;sync;sync?

When real world mapping meets Tolkien

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