The main problem with Comic Sans has historically been that it's variable-width and so hard to use for programming. Luckily that's been solved and Comic Mono can finally be my daily driver.
Jan 14th: I haven't used it for anything yet, but automerge looks like a really nice library for doing CRDT/OT-like multi-player interactions
Jan 13th: If MixBox is too much, Spectral.js is a little more straight forward for browser work.
The main problem with Comic Sans has historically been that it's variable-width and so hard to use for programming. Luckily that's been solved and Comic Mono can finally be my daily driver.
Jan 11th: I score higher in the US (84 points) that the EU (49 points) on the visited-places map. There are a lot of states though.
Jan 11th: Some day I need to visit Miniatur Wunderland. And maybe build my own version
Jan 11th: A genre of scientific papers I love are "plausible but obviously wrong", like Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?
Jan 11th: I haven't used it yet, but Gource seems like a good evolution of whatever it was we used for visualizing the evolution of codebases 20 years ago.
Jan 11th: As we approach the possible shutdown of TikTok in the US, it's worth re-reading the Monolith paper. Realtime adaptive recommendation is the secret sauce.
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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