piinbinary

POSTS

• Fixing the Biggest Problem with Mechanical Keyboards [video]

  by piinbinary on 9/11/2025, 2:47 PM with 0 comments

• A simple way to generate random points on a sphere

  by piinbinary on 8/19/2025, 9:11 PM with 75 comments

• Torpenhow Hill

  by piinbinary on 8/16/2025, 5:28 PM with 1 comments

• Monads to Machine Code

  by piinbinary on 5/25/2025, 5:40 PM with 1 comments

• A UI might not make it easier

  by piinbinary on 3/25/2025, 1:37 PM with 5 comments

• Software Shouldn't Flow Away (2020)

  by piinbinary on 2/16/2025, 12:21 AM with 0 comments

• So I rolled my own static site generator

  by piinbinary on 1/11/2025, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• The almost impossible chessboard puzzle

  by piinbinary on 1/14/2024, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• Moving Git commits between repos (2017)

  by piinbinary on 1/2/2024, 6:21 PM with 10 comments

• Tell HN: Slack seems to be having an outage

  by piinbinary on 8/2/2023, 4:31 PM with 0 comments

• What makes developers productive?

  by piinbinary on 7/16/2023, 1:57 PM with 156 comments

• The problem with slow tools (2021)

  by piinbinary on 7/15/2023, 6:19 PM with 55 comments

• Programming Language Design and Implementation stack exchange

  by piinbinary on 6/30/2023, 2:41 PM with 0 comments

• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

  by piinbinary on 3/24/2023, 12:38 AM with 1 comments

• Things your manager might not know (2021)

  by piinbinary on 10/30/2022, 12:51 PM with 108 comments

• Redefining for Loop Variable Semantics

  by piinbinary on 10/3/2022, 10:06 PM with 0 comments

• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

  by piinbinary on 9/27/2022, 9:17 PM with 1 comments

• Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 5 7600X Review: Retaking The High-End

  by piinbinary on 9/26/2022, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• Moravec's Paradox

  by piinbinary on 9/19/2022, 9:42 PM with 0 comments

• Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours

  by piinbinary on 9/14/2022, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• One-on-Ones with Executives

  by piinbinary on 9/8/2022, 12:09 AM with 0 comments

• The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero

  by piinbinary on 9/3/2022, 1:56 PM with 232 comments

• Reality doesn't care about your opinion

  by piinbinary on 6/7/2022, 4:43 PM with 5 comments

• Licking the Cookie

  by piinbinary on 4/20/2022, 9:30 PM with 0 comments

• Let a thousand flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots

  by piinbinary on 3/13/2022, 2:09 PM with 0 comments

• Tech debt gets worse before it gets better

  by piinbinary on 1/29/2022, 6:00 PM with 66 comments

• A Few Notes on Problem Solving

  by piinbinary on 1/2/2022, 1:18 AM with 0 comments

• Please Don't Argue with the Weather

  by piinbinary on 12/11/2021, 4:51 PM with 1 comments

• Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions

  by piinbinary on 11/25/2021, 2:10 PM with 0 comments

• Software Shouldn't Flow Away

  by piinbinary on 6/25/2021, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• Scary Logic

  by piinbinary on 5/13/2021, 2:29 PM with 0 comments

• The Problem with Slow Tools

  by piinbinary on 4/3/2021, 12:41 PM with 0 comments

• Golang: Know Your 'Nil'

  by piinbinary on 3/30/2021, 3:12 PM with 150 comments

• Scenius, or Communal Genius

  by piinbinary on 3/27/2021, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• How to Write Readable Code

  by piinbinary on 2/6/2021, 2:08 AM with 38 comments

• Why software development is hard

  by piinbinary on 1/2/2021, 4:10 PM with 0 comments

• Covid-19 precautions for Stripe employees and customers

  by piinbinary on 3/3/2020, 3:56 AM with 123 comments

• Michigan Left

  by piinbinary on 2/6/2020, 4:01 PM with 1 comments

• I Switched to Mozilla Firefox from Chrome and You Should Too

  by piinbinary on 1/12/2020, 1:50 PM with comments

• Stripe Launches in Mexico

  by piinbinary on 10/24/2019, 4:17 PM with 0 comments

• Valuation and Stock Market Returns: Adventures in Curve Fitting (2013)

  by piinbinary on 6/8/2019, 6:48 PM with 0 comments

• The Robots, AI, and Unemployment Anti-FAQ (2013)

  by piinbinary on 5/25/2019, 7:33 PM with 1 comments

• Rules for Autocomplete

  by piinbinary on 3/20/2019, 3:58 AM with 141 comments

• Ask HN: What is a good book to learn about the network stack?

  by piinbinary on 11/21/2018, 10:35 PM with 20 comments

• Basel Problem

  by piinbinary on 10/27/2018, 4:45 PM with 6 comments

• Proposal: Go 2 transition

  by piinbinary on 10/24/2018, 10:52 PM with 169 comments

• How Is It Possible That Average Tokyo Families Can Buy a Detached House?

  by piinbinary on 9/10/2018, 3:11 AM with comments

• The tail at scale [2013, pdf]

  by piinbinary on 7/27/2018, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's the worst kind of technical debt?

  by piinbinary on 6/16/2018, 2:17 AM with 11 comments

• Ask HN: What's the most productive development environment you've used?

  by piinbinary on 6/9/2018, 8:27 PM with 68 comments

• Hitchhiker's guide to code reviews

  by piinbinary on 5/18/2018, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• The Problem with Null

  by piinbinary on 5/12/2018, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• Understanding Algorithm W

  by piinbinary on 3/25/2018, 10:17 PM with 0 comments

• Typing Haskell in Haskell (2000)

  by piinbinary on 2/25/2018, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• Principles for building a great consumer tech company

  by piinbinary on 8/14/2017, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Unboxing

  by piinbinary on 8/3/2017, 5:06 PM with 19 comments

• How to move commits between Git repos

  by piinbinary on 7/22/2017, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Dear FCC

  by piinbinary on 7/13/2017, 4:55 AM with 0 comments

• Understanding nil in Go

  by piinbinary on 4/26/2017, 4:20 PM with 0 comments

• Know your nil

  by piinbinary on 3/30/2017, 3:59 PM with 0 comments

• Building Thumbtack: Five learnings in five years

  by piinbinary on 10/25/2016, 7:17 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Reducing the cost of meetings

  by piinbinary on 5/29/2016, 8:19 PM with 3 comments

• San Francisco's Long Shadow

  by piinbinary on 5/1/2016, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• Fearless migrations to back end services

  by piinbinary on 1/13/2016, 9:51 PM with 0 comments

• Warming up to Go

  by piinbinary on 9/9/2015, 2:59 AM with 0 comments

• Dependency injection for performance

  by piinbinary on 3/23/2015, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• Living with dependency injection

  by piinbinary on 7/17/2014, 5:12 PM with comments

• HN/PG: Please unbreak the 'Who is hiring' posts

  by piinbinary on 4/1/2014, 5:09 PM with 3 comments

• Do Leave Failing Tests

  by piinbinary on 6/4/2011, 2:44 AM with 0 comments

• Google: What We're Driving At

  by piinbinary on 10/9/2010, 7:05 PM with 84 comments