My Mental Model for “Is It Worth Automating?” Has Changed
Disposable scripts suddenly make sense when the implementation cost collapses.
A Free Chinese Dictionary, and Why I Built One
Introducing the Moya Chinese dictionary — 120,000+ words, sentence parsing, and a small blog about the long tail of Mandarin.
Moya Chinese
A new iOS app for learning Chinese, 11 years in the making
New Game: Picnic on the Moon
Picnic on the Moon is a daily puzzle game. A robot tells you what it's bringing — can you figure out the rule?
Should Makers Still Care About Code Quality?
If it works, it works, let the LLMs worry about the code… right?
Cryptic Crosswords: What They Are and How to Solve Them
If you were ever left confused by a cryptic crossword, you're not alone. But once you know some tricks, they become less cryptic.
Solving Every NYT Spelling Bee Puzzle, Now and Forever
How many possible puzzles combinations are there? Can we solve them all?
3 Books for New Engineering Leaders
A shortlist for software engineers moving into engineering management and leadership
Moving my Blog from Hugo to Zola
Zola is the static site generator I almost built myself, but thankfully didn't need to
3 Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books
Heuristics I use to decide which nonfiction books to read
Efficient Bit Manipulation in Go 1.9
Exploring the maths/bits package
Diary of Building an iOS App with React Native
The story of how I built the first non-Facebook React Native app to be released on the app store
Excellent Open Source Go Projects
A list of high quality Go projects to learn from
Solving Regex Crosswords using Go
Are you into solving regular expressions for fun? You've come to the right place!
Running the Go Race Detector with -cover
Overcoming an issue in Go versions before 1.3
Efficient String Concatenation in Go
Benchmarks of various approaches
Why is Golang popular in China?
Indeed, much more than anywhere else
The Popularity of Go
Some observations from Google Trends
Rugby
An Algorithmic Approach
Minimum Palindrome Partitions
Given a string, partition it such that every substring of the partition is a palindrome
Integer Square Root Implementation
An algorithm to find the square root of a given number
I Rewrote my Blog in Go
Streamlining from Django to Go. Here's what happened
Lessons Learnt from Startup Weekend
Lessons learnt from Startup Weekend, for software engineers