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• Error Page Redirects Should Not Lose Information (March 04, 2024) When showing an error page, make sure you don't drop more information from the request than you have to.
• Playing With The Basics (March 01, 2024) Top practitioners surprisingly often play around with extremely basic approaches.
• Digital Nicotine Patches (February 29, 2024) You can replace digital habits with less harmful versions, much like using nicotine patches for smoking cessation.
• Paper: Algorithmic Nuggets in Content Delivery (February 18, 2024) A brief review of a paper outlining the algorithmic problems encountered in building a CDN.
• The Much-Maligned Sunk Cost Fallacy (September 29, 2023)

  Some common misinterpretations of the sunk cost fallacy.

• You Can Get Stuff Fixed (September 27, 2023)

  You should probably be less reluctant to provide unsolicited suggestions for improvement.

• Abstractions Rule Everything Around Me (July 24, 2022)

  Abstraction isn’t just a thing you do when programming.

• Shared Curiosity (October 26, 2020)

  Some of the most engaging educational content starts with the author’s own curiosity.