Give your Commodore 64 new life with an SD card reader

Dust off your old Commodore 64, and you could be the coolest kid on the block by plugging SD cards into it instead of floppies.

Cross-domain communication the HTML5 way

Making a web application mashable -- useable in another web page -- has some challenges in the area of cross-domain communications. Here is how I solved those problems for Zwibbler.com, using HTML5 cross domain communication.

A little VIM hacking

Finding great ideas for your startup

"I just don't have any ideas." This is the #1 stumbling block for budding entrepreneurs. Here are a few techniques to get the creative juices flowing.

How wide should you make your web page?

Based on 22500 unique IP addresses over the past week.

Optimizing Ubuntu to run from a USB key or SD card

Fortunately, by following the tips below, you can make your USB or SD card based linux system fly!

A Quick Measure of Sortedness

How do you measure the "sortedness" of a list? There are several ways. In the literature this measure is called the "distance to monotonicity" or the "measure of disorder" depending on who you read. Here, I propose another measure for sortedness.

What does your phone number spell?

Here, I explain a technique for figuring out which words are in which phone numbers. Full C source code is included.

Type-checked CoffeeScript with jzbuild

If your project is a combination of javascript and coffeescript, and you want static type checking, this tool will make it easy.

Finding the top K items in a list efficiently

Do you use sort() to find the top results? Here's a simple trick that will make your software run much faster.