Wireshark is going Qt
Wireshark is moving their user interface away from GTK+ to Qt. Making such a large change wasn’t an easy decision. It means rewriting thousands of lines of code and requires a lot of careful design. We...
View Article11th-Hour Surprise
This morning, 10:01AM, our regional electric company sends: Introducing the newly redesigned [redacted] page — an even easier and faster way to refer your friends … This morning, 10:44AM: UPDATE: The...
View ArticleThe Technology Plateau
A great read, and not so much about web design: Web Design, The First 100 Years.
View ArticleRead the drawings
Repeat it to yourself until you believe it: “We’re engineers. We read the drawings.”
View ArticleG++ 5.3 Bug
I was just thinking to myself recently that I haven’t found a compiler bug in a while. It’s because I’m doing so much in Python, and I’ve never found a bug in Python (the language). But I’ve never...
View ArticleJava no longer free
Java will require a commercial license after January, 2019. Except for personal use. Wow. I wonder what this will do to the competition between it an its competitors (like python)? Will it impact the...
View ArticleHats off to the CME Developers
Oil futures went negative on the CME’s exchange this week, and it seems that the exchange software handled it flawlessly. Of course we expect it to, and languages handle that fine, but still I’d say...
View ArticleThe “lie-to-children” concept
Here’s an interesting concept: the lie-to-children: “A lie-to-children is a statement that is false, but which nevertheless leads the child’s mind towards a more accurate explanation, one that the...
View ArticleDark Matter is here!
I’d not heard that dark matter is right here with us, but Brent VanDevender says it is: https://pods-of-science.simplecast.com/episodes/how-to-build-a-quantum-computer-that-works 20:52: “Our galaxy is...
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