I’ve held this personally close for a long time, to the point where some of my closest friends still aren’t sure whether or not I’m lying or telling the truth. I’m not sure if this will set the…

A year ago today was my last day working a tech job.

Over the years, I've seen a lot of confusion about JavaScript function invocation. In particular, a lot of people have complained that the semantics of this in function invocations is confusing. In my opinion, a lot of this confusion is cleared up by understanding the core function invocation primitive, and then looking at all other ways of invoking a function as sugar on top of that primitive. In fact, this is exactly how the ECMAScript spec thinks about it. In some areas, this post is a simp

I'm going to explain the Donald Trump phenomenon in three movies. And then some text.

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How a team of young people, living in a repurposed McMansion in Maryland, helped rebuild Healthcare.gov

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Intervista al filosofo italiano, professore emerito dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza", che ha recentemente pubblicato "Breve storia d…