Thursday, 9 May 2024

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

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I like the sentiment of Helen Hunt Jackson  in that quote and it generally applies double for computer system names. However I like to think...
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Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

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Three years ago I wrote about using the AFL fuzzer to find bugs in several NetSurf libraries. I have repeated this exercise a couple of t...
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Thursday, 11 July 2019

We can make it better than it was. Better...stronger...faster.

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It is not a novel observation that computers have become so powerful that a reasonably recent system has a relatively long life before obsol...
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Tuesday, 19 February 2019

A very productive weekend

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I just hosted a NetSurf Developer weekend which is an opportunity for us to meet up and make use of all the benefits of working together. We...
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Sunday, 30 September 2018

All i wanted to do is check an error code

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I was feeling a little under the weather  last week and did not have enough concentration to work on developing a new NetSurf feature as I h...
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Tuesday, 7 August 2018

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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I fear that I may have worked in a similar office environment to  Robert Frost . Certainly his description is familiar to those of us who ha...
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Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Irony is the hygiene of the mind

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While  Elizabeth Bibesco  might well be right about the mind software cleanliness requires a different approach. Previously I have written...
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