October 2010
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01: Universal Redirect Locomotive
Did you ever lie awake at night wondering if the HTTP spec was Turing-complete? Just me? Damn.
First, a bit of background. The hypertext transfer protocol is the web’s standard way of piping bits around the globe. It’s the agreement between servers and clients for how to send, retrieve, modify, and delete data (and properties of that data) over the web. For the purpose of this...
September 2010
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Announcing!
1010: Ten Computers in Ten Months
1010 is a scope-restricted, long form variant of the “N in N” schemes you may have heard of before (7 in 7, 4 in 4). But instead of a fast-paced but freeform event, 1010 will be slow and focused and bounded: I will build ten computers in ten months.
My motivation? I miss hacking hardware. As a coder it’s easy to forget about the secret...