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September 26, 2026

Everybody Bleeds on Rat Jaw - Barkley Fall Classic

10 min read

July 1, 2025

Fighting Madness - Tahoe 200

14 min read

June 22, 2025

49 Hours with My Son in the Desert - Sedona Canyons 125

9 min read

January 20, 2025

Can confirm, HURT 100 hurts

8 min read

May 14, 2024

Cocodona 2024

19 min read

February 23, 2024

Unwavering dedication

1 min read

October 5, 2023

Little Dog's Backyard Ultra: Take 2

5 min read

September 20, 2023

The future of Leo: A roadmap for Brave's built-in AI browser assistant

4 min read

June 5, 2023

Achievement Unlocked

5 min read

May 8, 2023

Cocodona 250

20 min read

October 18, 2022

National Big Dog's Backyard Ultra World Championships - Team Canada

16 min read

June 4, 2022

FAwR 2022

3 min read

May 23, 2022

Perfect conditions at the Perfect PR Backyard Ultra

5 min read

October 3, 2021

Little Dog's Backyard Ultra: From despair to naive optimism

6 min read

January 19, 2021

IPFS support in Brave

4 min read

August 17, 2020

Diary of a selfless, good dog

9 min read

May 12, 2020

My first 100 mile run - Woodstock Hallucination

5 min read

November 13, 2019

The road to Brave 1.0

12 min read

July 8, 2016

Shutting down Code Firefox

1 min read

January 20, 2016

Brave Software

1 min read

August 25, 2015

The Link Bubble Android web browser has gone fully free

1 min read

May 29, 2015

Thank you Khan Academy, switching careers

1 min read

November 27, 2014

Developing and releasing the Khan Academy Firefox OS app

1 min read

November 26, 2014

SQL on Khan Academy enabled by SQLite, sqljs, asm.js and Emscripten

1 min read

November 25, 2014

Automated end to end testing at Khan Academy using Gecko

1 min read

July 20, 2014

Making programming easier on Khan Academy - 2014 Hackathon project

1 min read

July 9, 2014

Peer evaluations for coding projects on Khan Academy

1 min read

April 26, 2014

My first week at Khan Academy

1 min read

March 18, 2014

Does Modern UI Firefox usage indicate Windows 8.1 modern UI is in trouble?

1 min read

March 14, 2014

Switching careers, next steps

1 min read

March 5, 2014

Investing in our community through Code Firefox

5 min read

November 18, 2013

Short one video per concept Firefox development videos

1 min read

November 6, 2013

Shared profiles for Metro Firefox and Desktop Firefox

2 min read

October 4, 2012

Firefox Metro Preview Release - Status update 8

2 min read

September 18, 2012

Preparing for the Firefox for Windows 8 Metro preview, status update 7

2 min read

August 15, 2012

Firefox for Windows 8 Metro - Front end updates, crash reporting, pdfs, and more, status update 6

1 min read

August 3, 2012

What is it like to work as a remote engineer at Mozilla

2 min read

July 27, 2012

User study on mentoring a large first bug

2 min read

July 19, 2012

Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 5

1 min read

July 4, 2012

Retrospection - My first year at Mozilla

1 min read

July 8, 2012

Visual Studio 2012 Express for Desktop applications

1 min read

May 26, 2012

Visual Studio 11 Express - No support for building desktop applications nor metro style enabled desktop browsers

1 min read

May 26, 2012

DirectX and XAML interop - Great feature, but not for metro style enabled desktop browsers

1 min read

May 26, 2012

Important change to UAC when disabled with process integrity in Windows 8

1 min read

May 10, 2012

What will the Windows 8 Metro UI look and feel like?

1 min read

May 10, 2012

Windows 8 on ARM users need browser choice too

1 min read

April 30, 2012

Firefox work week Windows 8 talk

1 min read

April 22, 2012

The latest on Firefox for Windows 8 Metro, status update 4

1 min read

April 2, 2012

A working Firefox Windows 8 Metro prototype, status update 3

2 min read

March 26, 2012

Frequently asked questions for Silent Updates in Firefox

2 min read

March 25, 2012

Review of the book Node for Front-End Developers by Garann Means

1 min read

March 17, 2012

Firefox Metro development heating up, 2nd status update

2 min read

March 9, 2012

Firefox Metro development begins, status update

2 min read

February 8, 2012

Snappy optimizations for faster Firefox startup

2 min read

October 5, 2011

Mozilla platform development cheat sheet

1 min read

September 30, 2011

Mozilla Firefox and silent updates

4 min read

September 15, 2011

Windows 8 and Thunderbird first looks

1 min read

September 14, 2011

Windows 8 and Firefox first looks

1 min read

August 7, 2011

Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston

1 min read

July 10, 2011

Web optimizations and canvas exporting with data URLs

1 min read

June 12, 2011

What you should know about HTTP pipelining

3 min read

June 8, 2011

Switching careers, starting soon with Mozilla

1 min read

April 26, 2011

StackExchange average age of users for each tag

2 min read

April 25, 2011

Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook lists updated for StackExchange April dumps

1 min read

April 24, 2011

Converting a Django site to Google App Engine

1 min read

April 24, 2011

Review of Programming Google App Engine

1 min read

April 29, 2011

My company was acquired

1 min read

April 24, 2011

Review of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

1 min read

February 22, 2011

Five Windows 7 taskbar features available to developers

4 min read

February 12, 2011

12 things web developers should know about Firebug

4 min read

February 6, 2011

The big picture of how Khan Academy development works

3 min read

January 16, 2011

Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook StackOverflow lists updated

1 min read

January 6, 2011

Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook StackOverflow user lists sorted by reputation

1 min read

January 3, 2011

73 percent of StackExchange users from StackOverflow

1 min read

January 1, 2011

Twitter accounts for all StackOverflow users by reputation

1 min read

December 17, 2010

Stackoverflow amongst nofollow web abuse sites

5 min read

December 11, 2010

Review of The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun

1 min read

November 20, 2010

Review of HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim

1 min read

October 23, 2010

Windows Phone 7 development overview in 2 minutes

2 min read

October 19, 2010

Understanding Windows at a deeper level - Sessions, Window Stations, and Desktops

10 min read

September 4, 2010

Stopping spam without CAPTCHA

1 min read

July 17, 2010

Django tagging

1 min read

July 9, 2010

Django Comment Framework

1 min read

July 3, 2010

Microsoft MVP for Visual C++ July 2010 - July 2011

1 min read

March 17, 2010

The sad life of SVG up until... NOW

1 min read

December 18, 2009

One of the joys of Python - Generators

2 min read

December 12, 2009

Forward declaring enums in C++

1 min read

December 10, 2009

Pure virtual function call errors and related behavior

2 min read

November 12, 2009

Arrays are not the same as pointers!

1 min read

September 21, 2009

Introducing the rope data structure!

1 min read

September 21, 2009

2 books I'm reading...

1 min read

September 19, 2009

How VNC, Fog Creek Copilot and other remote control software works

5 min read

August 22, 2009

The new site is out!

1 min read

August 21, 2009

PyISAPIe with Django 1.1 and Python 2.6

1 min read

August 18, 2009

Overloading logical operators

1 min read

August 7, 2009

Braille and Morse Code

4 min read

August 5, 2009

Wedding Anniversary

1 min read

July 28, 2009

Slow compilation time in C-C++

1 min read

April 1, 2009

Python's holy grail

1 min read

February 5, 2009

The twins have arrived

1 min read

August 9, 2008

How to change the port for RDP?

1 min read

August 2, 2008

Big news

1 min read

April 13, 2008

Easy taxes for Ontario Canada

1 min read

April 5, 2008

Solution Environment Variables for Visual Studio

1 min read

March 30, 2008

Why is math important?

4 min read

February 3, 2008

Microsoft - Yahoo

1 min read

August 23, 2007

Windsor Social sucks

1 min read

August 6, 2007

Married

1 min read

July 28, 2007

Funny Simpsons quote

1 min read

June 3, 2007

Interview with Steve and Bill

1 min read

May 29, 2007

Parallels with Mac Book Pro

1 min read

May 28, 2007

Why do file copy dialogs suck so much?

1 min read

April 4, 2007

Apple hardware hype advantage

1 min read

April 4, 2007

Windows vista annoyance

1 min read

January 24, 2007

The trouble with Internet Explorer

1 min read

January 11, 2007

Writing good and easy to understand emails

1 min read

December 11, 2006

A story of a 17 inch MacBook Pro

4 min read

December 5, 2006

Windows Vista information and thoughts

1 min read

November 27, 2006

Thoughts on Apple and Microsoft

1 min read

November 27, 2006

Information on the Macintosh

1 min read

November 26, 2006

Apple 30" cinema display

1 min read

November 26, 2006

Useful visual studio shortcut key

1 min read

November 24, 2006

Linked senses

1 min read

November 24, 2006

Transparent fridge and washing machine

1 min read

November 20, 2006

Amazing video about a blind kid

1 min read

November 8, 2006

White and Nerdy

1 min read

November 7, 2006

Can you answer this brain teaser?

1 min read

November 6, 2006

Stay hungry, stay foolish

1 min read

November 2, 2006

iTV will change the world

1 min read

November 2, 2006

Steve Jobs

1 min read

October 24, 2006

Random Wikipedia page

1 min read

October 20, 2006

IE 7 released

1 min read

October 18, 2006

18 mistakes that kill startups

1 min read

October 9, 2006

Added picture

1 min read

October 9, 2006

Google trumps Yahoo! and MSN

1 min read

October 5, 2006

Nintendo power glove - cooler than the wii remote?

1 min read

October 5, 2006

Google Code Search

1 min read

October 5, 2006

A map of the Internet

1 min read

October 4, 2006

10 million to any team that can completely decode the genes of 100 people in 10 days

1 min read

September 30, 2006

Google desktop search is annoying

1 min read

September 20, 2006

Prize Money

1 min read

September 18, 2006

Great local band

1 min read

September 9, 2006

Visual studio C++ suggestion

1 min read

September 3, 2006

Nice wallpapers for your computer

1 min read

September 2, 2012

Boot Camp

1 min read

August 25, 2012

Managing Gigabytes - Compression and IR

1 min read

August 17, 2006

Google analytics now open to all users

1 min read

August 16, 2006

Studies in lossless data compression

2 min read

August 13, 2006

Hutter Prize - Compress human knowledge

1 min read

August 13, 2006

New service URLZip

1 min read

August 11, 2006

URL redirecting temporarily disabled

1 min read

April 22, 2006

Writely - Forgot password leads to new account

1 min read

July 25, 2006

Google tech talk: Python 3000

1 min read

July 19, 2006

XULRunner = cool

1 min read

July 16, 2006

Ubuntu package installs

1 min read

July 16, 2006

Installed Ubuntu Linux

1 min read

July 14, 2006

Wikipedia contributions

1 min read

July 14, 2006

Learning Cocoa with Objective C on XCode

1 min read

July 14, 2006

UDP-TCP hole punching

1 min read

July 4, 2006

Got a new apple computer

1 min read

July 3, 2006

DynamicDNS addition

1 min read

July 25, 2006

Screen resolutions

1 min read

June 15, 2006

Long URLs to small URLs

1 min read

June 14, 2006

Dynamic DNS update

1 min read

June 14, 2006

Added submit URL button to Links page

1 min read

June 13, 2006

Dynamic DNS

1 min read

August 30, 2005

What's my IP?

1 min read

August 1, 2005

FTP protocol overview

2 min read

June 11, 2005

Windows 64Bit AMD and Intel processor rundown

1 min read

March 23, 2005

STL mini tutorial - strings, vectors, and maps

2 min read

March 23, 2005

How email works?

3 min read