Ken Shirriff's blog

If you've programmed in Arc, you've probably noticed that the error messages are often cryptic at best. Error handling is a major ...

Since I've been hearing good things about the F# language from various people, I wanted to give it a try, but I wasn't interested in...

A couple months ago I went to a French cafe at the Denver airport. Outside the restaurant was a large rotating menu, clearly costly to manu...

I was recently reading The Little Schemer , a very intersting book about how to think in Scheme. The book uses a unique question-response ...

When using the Arc REPL, I've often wanted to edit a previous line. Python lets you access and edit lines using the arrow keys, so why ...

I came across a thread on reddit about why you shouldn't write your own encryption algorithm . In it, one person presented a homegrown...

I've been experimenting with QR codes (2-d bar codes) with my mobile phone. While helping my daughter assemble a Lego® spaceship, I ha...