Stories by laptop-man

Creating Languages in Racket (2011)

"I Was a Slumlord…" [1972]

Skyscrapers and business cycles

What Does Haskell Have to Do with C++?

In defence of the euro: an Austrian perspective

Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor

The Idiot's Guide to Special Variables and Lexical Closures

The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life

How the Welfare State Corrupted Sweden

The valve manifesto

John Carmack on Functional programming in C++

FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt

TSA waste map

S-99: Ninety-Nine Scala Problems

Interview: The Making Of Dwarf Fortress

Unix for Poets

C++ and Lisp

A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada

A to Z of programming languages: Smalltalk-80, a talk with Alan Kay

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