Optimizing PHP: Array Lookups Instead of Nested Loops

Howard Marks from Oaktree Capital is one of my favorite investors. He is very smart so I always like to watch his interviews. He also regularly publishes memos which are great reads if one is interested in the topic of investing. This post is a summary of his investing philosophy as gathered from his presentation at Google. I started writing this...

In this post I am going to talk about the Suckless software tools and how I have integrated them into my workflow and daily use. Suckless tools are interesting because they are a little different from the mainstream in terms of how their software is built, configured, packaged and delivered. Their websites summarizes their mission statement as...

This is a summary post of different programming languages as well as my personal experiences and opinions about them. I have written code in many languages over the years. Some languages I have tried only briefly while others I have used daily for many years. Additionally there are many interesting languages that I still look forward to learning....

I have decided to move my public Git repositories to GitHub from Bitbucket. There is no denying it: GitHub is the place to be if you want to have a public profile as a software engineer. I have had my code hosted on Bitbucket for years and have been kind of waiting that it would be developed more to be a serious competitor for GitHub. But while...

This post is about a little different topic than my normal topics of software engineering and investing. The beauty of having a personal blog is that I can write about any topic that pops into my head. This post is about potential dangers of contacting extraterrestrial civilizations before we are ready for such adventures. I have always been...