The silliest reason to get a MacBook

My consulting work, as a Web Developer, sometimes requires cross-browser development. It’s an annoyance to find common ground between different CSS implementations in different browsers. Though I hear JavaScript is worse. So while working at the office, we had a machine dedicated to testing with IE. Now that I’m back at the University of Waterloo, [...]

Dvorak and Programming

Last month when I was talking about cleaning my keyboard, I’ve mentioned Dvorak, a keyboard layout alternative to the common QWERTY. That has sparked some discussion, so I wanted to follow up on the topic.

So what is Dvorak, and why should anyone care?

The Dvorak Zine does a wonderful job explaining the history of keyboard layouts, [...]

Think differently

I came across a story that was simply too good to not repost. Titled learning to think differently, I first saw it in Slashdot comments, though it seems that Snopes has found it to be an urban legend, with roots going as far back as 1958. The Barometer Problem is a story of education, physics, [...]