Welcome to Halfyak.
I’m working on collecting things here.
If you want to see some code i wrote, check out my public shell configuration or the Alfred workflows i’ve built.
If you want to read some things that i have written, here are some blogs from my time at Atlassian about null pointer exceptions and stack overflows.
Three ways that you, a more experienced practitioner, can help others around you, with varying experience, to get more done.
Why 22/7 is such a good approximation to pi – a quick glimpse at continued fractions
An observation about a particular failure mode which leads engineering projects to occupy isolated local maxima.
A description of an abstraction which illustrates a connection between the mean and the median.
The text of an occasional address I had the opportunity to deliver to a group of graduating students at the University of Sydney, 17th May 2024, 9:30am
An exploration of an analogy between code and fashion, presenting the idea that thinking about code in context is like thinking about fashion in context.
A school level maths discussion of the mathematical background needed to give a precise meaning to “zero to the power of zero”.