Stories by zem

Zilch

In which Terry Pratchett discusses his love for the Oblivion modding community

Are planetary systems filled to capacity? (2007)

Why You’ll Pay for Silence: John Cage’s 4:33

This Nonprofit Is Feeding Ugly Vegetables to Hundreds of People Every Day

Lookups: A highly optimized Trie/DAWG dictionary for JavaScript

About that “real job”

Why did ancient Egypt spend 3000 years playing a game nobody else liked?

Determining galactic distances via machine learning

Straight Line Mechanism

Where to put the cow: A cartoon guide to composition

Kickstarter Math is Weird

Why I Love Hackathons

Steam Engine Time

The Cooke Passage: The longest land to land, straight line ocean route on Earth

MirageOS Pioneer Projects

How our small startup affords to offer paid maternity leave

Vetinari Clock Simulator

Qubes OS: Security by Compartmentalization

Scrabble: what makes good players good (2012)

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