Today is the last day of 2019, and what a year it has been! It feels like it packed enough for a decade. In January, there was an internal company announcement of me resigning from CTO position in Qobo Ltd, a job I had for 4.5 years (which is my second longest run in one … Continue reading 2019 – what a year!
All episodes of Joe Rogan Experience podcast are nearly three hours long, so I usually just watch the highlights. But this chat with Edward Snowden was well worth the full length watch. Edward Snowden is one of the brightest and bravest people of our generation, and his story is fascinating. I think that this lengthy … Continue reading Joe Rogan Experience #1368 – Edward Snowden
Curtis “Ovid” Poe, the author of the book “Beginning Perl” and long-time Perl Monk, has this excellent post on the re-branding discussion of Perl 6. Even though I’m not writing much Perl code these days, I have to admit that the whole Perl 6 thing has been going for years now and I’m one of … Continue reading Perl 6 re-branding
If you haven’t heard the news yet and are wondering what the heck P++ is, here’s a quick update for you. There’s been some noise around the idea of creating a separate dialect of PHP, code-named P++. The idea is an attempt to find a compromise between two different schools of thought on the evolution … Continue reading PHP vs P++
Have a look at kottke’s article about the Fortnite World Cup. It’s short enough to digest in a few seconds. Yet it links to more articles, and features some numbers, that blew my mind. More than 40 million people played in the 10 weeks of qualifiers, the oldest player in the final lineup was 24 … Continue reading Fortnite World Cup