Writing

  • For Professor Boyd

    In praise of a professor who changed my life, although he never knew it.
  • Frege's Numbers

    In 1884, Gottlob Frege made an ingenious move defining each and every (finite) cardinal number and proving that there are infinity of them.
  • Celebrate Remote Work

    True remote-first company cultures have all sorts of benefits, and not just for remote folks.
  • scalac -optimise Compiles Are Slow

    Don't use the this flag with scalac, since it results in very slow compiles.
  • My Favorite Little Annotation

    Jerkson is Coda Hale's small JSON library for Scala. It's a wrapper around Jackson, a fast Java JSON library with a nice API.

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