Building a Turing Machine in PowerPoint, without using macros, a truly an amazing feat.
Dec 26th: are pop lyrics getting more repetetive uses LZ compression to find out for sure - 2014 was the 'worst' year on record
Dec 26th: it's the end of the year, so it's time for ... cleaning up some browser tabs!
the haunted island game looks pretty much tailor made for me
Nov 23rd: If you spend a large portion of your time in Google sheets, this quick primer on adding data labels will save you a ton of time in photoshop.
Nov 21st: I'm fairly obsessed with the London Underground, so these tours of disused Tube tunnels sounds amazing.
Sep 23rd: I'm in the process of setting up a new laptop and need to wait for the giant Dropbox sync. Getting Windows 10 to stop sleeping when locked required two different registry hacks. In 2018 :(
Building a Turing Machine in PowerPoint, without using macros, a truly an amazing feat.
Sep 4th: For some unfathomable reason, Bedfordshire (the area in which I grew up) grows some of the hottest chilli peppers in the world, all created by Salvatore Genovese.
It's long been known that waterfall is the superior model for developing software, and we finally (~12 years ago, but probably didn't hit its schedule) have a conference to discuss these important techniques.
Aug 6th: I've updated my 2018 reading list to include my June and July picks.
This is the personal site of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO, ex Glitch engineer, ex Flickr architect, programmer, author and chronic complainer.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles. I also blog at World of Theorycraft and those links show up here too.
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