Oct 31st: I love the story of The Griddler, a character in the MacDonald's advertising world, but with very little evidence they ever existed.
Oct 25th: A great little visualization of how many programming jobs now allow remote, according to listings on Hacker News
A very cool home project - you can build a working 555 timer chip out of individual transistors. It's one thing to know that ICs are made of transistors, it's another thing to assemble it by hand and then have it be usable. The very first PCB I made in school used a 555, so this is very cool.
I just love this story - The first streamer was a 12 year old on public access TV in 1993
Oct 1st: Black Mesa is a re-write of the original Half-Life game, on a modern engine with updated graphics, puzzles and game play. It's a fan-made conversion, that took years, but it's really good.
This is the personal website of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
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