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Not long ago, I had an interesting lunchtime discussion with Job Vranish. I don’t recall exactly how we got on the topic, but we were discussing how mesmerizing siphons are. As the discussion progressed to imagining a fluid-based computer (that’s another story…), I remembered something I had seen as a child at the Indianapolis Children’s... 
Justin Kulesza and I have been using Puppet to manage the configuration of some virtualized servers. Recently, we added some modules that introduced unexpected dependency cycles. As we worked to untangle the complex series of dependencies, it became difficult to keep track of just how everything was connected. In order to make sense of the…
CLI aficionados working on any of the many *nix platforms are likely familiar with at least a few of the types of pipes available for creating powerful one-liners to get things done. One idiom I find particularly interesting is that used by the RVM installation process. In one line, the script is both downloaded and…
Charles Petzold is perhaps best known for his books on programming Windows applications. I have not read those, but I can’t imagine they will age nearly as well as Code has. With Code, Petzold sets out to inform a general audience about the inner workings of computers. I think he succeeds here in a way…
Carl is the president and co-founder of Atomic Object