Archive - lotecnotec

Iterative programming method

Coding to a specification using "fuck around and find out"

Apr 3 •

John (jc) Comeau

March 2024

Gimmick is working

Motivating myself to do push-ups when I'd really rather not

Mar 16 •

John (jc) Comeau

No gods, no masters

Letting them wither by no longer mentioning their names

Mar 15 •

John (jc) Comeau

December 2023

On "plagiarism"

and what makes it inevitable

Dec 22, 2023 •

John (jc) Comeau

postscript `switch` implementation

should work similarly in many languages

Dec 3, 2023 •

John (jc) Comeau

August 2023

Two other publications

The Rawlsian and Best Practices

Aug 22, 2023 •

John (jc) Comeau

June 2023

And their lack of magic

Jun 8, 2023 •

John (jc) Comeau

May 2023

casperscript now has `savesession`

throwback to `save-system` from F83

May 2, 2023 •

John (jc) Comeau

January 2023

The Chimes of La Paz

Or, how an idle mind occupies itself...

Jan 18, 2023 •

John (jc) Comeau

December 2022

Let's not forget Kaiser CEO Bernard Tyson

Who died less than 3 weeks after his "Join me in preventing the flu" tweet.

Dec 7, 2022 •

John (jc) Comeau

July 2022

And cannot fix it.

Jul 20, 2022 •

John (jc) Comeau

June 2022

Lotecnotec's take on Pfraud

The Digger's article was great, but maybe it can be even easier to understand

Jun 28, 2022 •

John (jc) Comeau

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