Exploring the overlap between code and reason

In the corporate world, leadership is often romanticized as the driving force behind progress. We picture visionary entrepreneurs shaping the future, their charisma inspiring entire teams to build something greater than themselves. But reality is not always so noble. Many…

Many years ago, I used to make software using Visual Basic (the best programming environment back in the day, until Apple's own for mobile and native apps came out), but in recent years I've been using PHP and JS for…

There’s a cruel irony in today’s workplaces: the most capable, creative, and valuable people often leave, while those who contribute little, or worse, create obstacles, seem to rise through the ranks. It is a phenomenon many employees have…

At the end of the 1990s, the video game industry stood at a technological crossroads. Consoles were becoming more powerful, the internet was starting to influence entertainment, and the line between arcade-quality graphics and home experiences was rapidly blurring. Into…

When The Ren & Stimpy Show first aired on Nickelodeon in 1991, it looked like nothing else on television. In a children’s TV landscape still dominated by the safe, sanitized formula of 80s cartoons, heroic teams, moral lessons, and…

In the world of computer science, true algorithmic breakthroughs are rare. Many of the foundations we use today were established decades ago, refined over time, but rarely replaced. One such foundation has been Dijkstra’s shortest-path algorithm, a staple of graph…