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Introduction to Perl one-liners
2 comments
3,484 views
May 07, 2012
A quine in node.js
6 comments
2,674 views
May 01, 2012
A poem about division from Hacker's Delight
0 comment
3,280 views
April 21, 2012
The curious case of the DES algorithm
13 comments
13,873 views
April 19, 2012
A proof that Unix utility "sed" is Turing complete
5 comments
26,709 views
April 17, 2012
Review of Clickatell's SMS Service
2 comments
976 views
April 05, 2012
Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
32 comments
177,259 views
March 09, 2012
Announcing dedicated servers for Browserling
0 comment
13,021 views
March 01, 2012
Announcing my third e-book "Perl One-Liners Explained"
6 comments
25,450 views
February 01, 2012
How Browserling Works [art]
4 comments
5,539 views
January 29, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: procstreams
1 comment
7,528 views
January 24, 2012
Browserling has a new design!
7 comments
6,256 views
January 16, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: everyauth
5 comments
12,652 views
January 03, 2012
How to setup Stripe payments with node.js
10 comments
20,554 views
December 29, 2011
A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers
12 comments
37,557 views
December 25, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: jsonstream
0 comment
7,859 views
December 22, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: cradle
4 comments
7,862 views
December 16, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: semver
2 comments
16,504 views
December 15, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: express
4 comments
9,263 views
December 14, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: redis
0 comment
13,664 views
December 13, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: socket.io
0 comment
15,614 views
December 12, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: ntwitter
4 comments
10,383 views
December 09, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: read
11 comments
14,685 views
December 08, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: hashish
3 comments
11,125 views
December 07, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: request
16 comments
20,204 views
December 06, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: lazy
4 comments
15,368 views
December 05, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: optimist
2 comments
16,091 views
December 02, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: dnode
3 comments
22,193 views
December 01, 2011
Announcing perl1line.txt - Collection of Handy Perl Scripts
3 comments
21,473 views
November 14, 2011
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VII: Handy Regular Expressions
21 comments
24,359 views
November 10, 2011
Announcing Headless Testling
3 comments
13,825 views
November 07, 2011
Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing
2 comments
23,580 views
October 24, 2011
World's best introduction to sed
5 comments
42,324 views
October 07, 2011
Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained"
17 comments
37,304 views
September 14, 2011
We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling!
16 comments
74,067 views
September 05, 2011
Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition 2011
5 comments
24,060 views
August 29, 2011
Announcing Tunnels for Browserling
3 comments
14,116 views
August 17, 2011
Four Years of Blogging
15 comments
9,633 views
August 03, 2011
How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for my Browserling startup
38 comments
23,847 views
July 26, 2011
Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained"
56 comments
66,812 views
June 20, 2011
Donald Knuth never told Steve Jobs that he was full of crap
11 comments
49,876 views
June 08, 2011
Working with git? These aliases will save you hours!
19 comments
51,667 views
May 20, 2011
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VI: Selective printing and deleting of lines
18 comments
22,110 views
April 27, 2011
A TCP Proxy in Perl
6 comments
17,552 views
March 31, 2011
Why chmod text modes are more powerful than octal
14 comments
13,797 views
February 28, 2011
How to write a simple TCP Server in Haskell
13 comments
32,542 views
January 27, 2011
Restricting what programs a user can run on Windows via Group Policy Objects
16 comments
24,217 views
December 12, 2010
How to delete cookies, cache and history in all major browsers
23 comments
37,101 views
December 01, 2010
Announcing Browserling!
37 comments
50,745 views
November 24, 2010
Introducing node-lazy - lazy lists for node.js
5 comments
23,430 views
October 14, 2010
I pushed 20 more of my projects to GitHub
7 comments
310,795 views
September 20, 2010
Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition
17 comments
253,989 views
August 30, 2010
StackVM Demo Video #2
12 comments
33,553 views
August 10, 2010
Announcement: I am doing a startup - StackVM!
80 comments
189,955 views
July 21, 2010
Three Years of Blogging
24 comments
14,222 views
July 06, 2010
The Four Polymorphisms in C++
22 comments
101,513 views
June 18, 2010
Yet Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
25 comments
68,129 views
June 02, 2010
On Functors
26 comments
77,331 views
May 17, 2010
Turn any Linux computer into SOCKS5 proxy in one command
47 comments
161,207 views
May 06, 2010
A HTTP Proxy Server in 20 Lines of node.js Code
42 comments
232,193 views
April 28, 2010
Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
46 comments
141,129 views
April 20, 2010
A Real Turing Machine Running The Busy Beaver
4 comments
20,611 views
March 29, 2010
The Next Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
20 comments
161,259 views
March 24, 2010
Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
80 comments
937,238 views
March 18, 2010
Visual Math Friday
19 comments
33,303 views
March 05, 2010
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VII: ragtag.vim (formerly allml.vim)
12 comments
124,626 views
March 03, 2010
Donald Knuth's First Computer
6 comments
34,896 views
February 26, 2010
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 6: Column Space and Null Space
13 comments
53,998 views
February 24, 2010
Deriving the Y-Combinator
15 comments
55,442 views
February 19, 2010
Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use)
137 comments
307,744 views
February 12, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part V: Text conversion and substitution
21 comments
85,625 views
February 03, 2010
How to keep track of who's talking about you
4 comments
13,707 views
January 27, 2010
How to Steal a Botnet (Video Lecture Summary)
6 comments
31,790 views
January 23, 2010
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 5: Vector Spaces and Subspaces
9 comments
63,188 views
January 21, 2010
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VI: nerd_tree.vim
19 comments
369,816 views
January 18, 2010
Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
60 comments
279,099 views
January 13, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation
20 comments
117,092 views
January 07, 2010
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 4: A=LU Factorization
5 comments
69,564 views
January 04, 2010
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof
17 comments
135,485 views
December 23, 2009
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 3: Matrix Multiplication and Inverse Matrices
7 comments
33,631 views
December 16, 2009
Recursive Regular Expressions
20 comments
67,478 views
December 14, 2009
50 ideas for the new catonmat.net website
29 comments
31,257 views
December 10, 2009
I pushed 30 of my projects to GitHub
14 comments
67,544 views
December 08, 2009
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 2: Elimination with Matrices
5 comments
31,884 views
December 03, 2009
Secret Perl Operators
31 comments
109,495 views
November 30, 2009
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 1: The Geometry of Linear Equations
7 comments
39,534 views
November 24, 2009
Feedburner Graphs Suck, or How to Generate Nice Graphs for Feedburner
6 comments
25,720 views
November 17, 2009
Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
15 comments
174,291 views
November 11, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part V: a.vim
10 comments
50,067 views
November 05, 2009
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part III: Calculations
15 comments
45,314 views
November 03, 2009
The Busy Beaver Problem
21 comments
84,537 views
October 29, 2009
ldd arbitrary code execution
54 comments
170,608 views
October 26, 2009
Python Library for Google Translate
29 comments
44,775 views
September 28, 2009
Resolving DNS Asynchronously
19 comments
29,791 views
September 17, 2009
bithacks.h - bit hacks header file
13 comments
41,937 views
September 03, 2009
Python Library for Google Sets
5 comments
18,778 views
August 13, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim
34 comments
168,880 views
August 04, 2009
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering
12 comments
115,846 views
July 31, 2009
Two Years of Blogging
30 comments
21,241 views
July 27, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 22 and 23: Cache Oblivious Algorithms
9 comments
157,424 views
July 13, 2009
On the Linear Time Algorithm For Finding Fibonacci Numbers
39 comments
52,691 views
July 07, 2009
Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
67 comments
331,961 views
June 30, 2009
Python Library for Searching Adwords
9 comments
19,945 views
April 15, 2009
Python Library for Google Search
155 comments
165,373 views
March 12, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 20 and 21: Parallel Algorithms
11 comments
90,460 views
March 07, 2009
JavaScript: The Good Parts
6 comments
110,626 views
February 28, 2009
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing
29 comments
177,027 views
February 25, 2009
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
40 comments
138,016 views
February 17, 2009
Update on Famous Awk One-Liners Explained: String and Array Creation
6 comments
72,541 views
February 09, 2009
Musical Geek Friday #17: Hax That Fsck
12 comments
14,957 views
February 06, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part III: matchit.vim
13 comments
174,078 views
February 05, 2009
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
74 comments
278,090 views
February 02, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 17, 18 and 19: Shortest Path Algorithms
14 comments
116,930 views
January 27, 2009
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Deletion of Certain Lines and Special Applications
6 comments
161,880 views
January 14, 2009
How to Save Time by Watching Videos at Higher Playback Speeds
41 comments
44,171 views
January 07, 2009
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Printing and Deleting of Certain Lines
28 comments
198,861 views
January 05, 2009
Christmas Tree in the Shell
8 comments
32,419 views
December 25, 2008
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part II: Selective Printing of Certain Lines
5 comments
86,444 views
December 21, 2008
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part II: repeat.vim
13 comments
63,266 views
December 15, 2008
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II: Text Conversion and Substitution
23 comments
171,785 views
December 13, 2008
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim
33 comments
366,264 views
December 08, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 16: Greedy Algorithms
7 comments
80,878 views
December 04, 2008
What Would John McCarthy Say if He Saw You Programming?
4 comments
30,919 views
December 03, 2008
Set Operations in the Unix Shell Simplified
8 comments
41,081 views
December 02, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #16: Don't Copy That Floppy
2 comments
14,467 views
November 28, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 15: Dynamic Programming
28 comments
82,932 views
November 27, 2008
My Job Interview at Google
217 comments
704,326 views
November 24, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #15: Kill -9
1 comment
23,801 views
November 21, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 13 and 14: Amortized Analysis and Self-Organizing Lists
2 comments
43,045 views
November 20, 2008
Difference Between Edsger Dijkstra and Larry Wall
7 comments
37,174 views
November 07, 2008
Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought
17 comments
47,785 views
November 05, 2008
10 Awk Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls
35 comments
195,565 views
October 23, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 12: Skip Lists
16 comments
69,171 views
October 16, 2008
Set Operations in the Unix Shell
33 comments
183,009 views
October 13, 2008
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution
44 comments
379,515 views
October 08, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 11: Augmenting Data Structures
3 comments
216,043 views
September 29, 2008
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Calculations
32 comments
542,813 views
September 27, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 9 and 10: Search Trees
7 comments
41,829 views
September 23, 2008
Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser
56 comments
203,531 views
September 05, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 7 and 8: Hashing
2 comments
100,958 views
September 03, 2008
Golfing the Extraction of IP Addresses from ifconfig
43 comments
37,631 views
August 31, 2008
Revisiting GNU Awk YouTube Video Downloader
8 comments
17,757 views
August 29, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 6: Order Statistics
8 comments
95,969 views
August 27, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 4 and 5: Sorting
7 comments
74,434 views
August 25, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #14: Alice and Bob
3 comments
19,108 views
August 22, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 3: Divide and Conquer
13 comments
187,083 views
August 21, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 1 and 2: Analysis of Algorithms
74 comments
692,143 views
August 19, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #13: Song For Hackers and Crackers
3 comments
12,666 views
August 15, 2008
Traffic Accounting with Linux IPTables
14 comments
44,750 views
August 05, 2008
Python Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
2 comments
26,350 views
July 26, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #12: Every OS Sucks
13 comments
15,781 views
July 25, 2008
Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL
8 comments
52,896 views
July 24, 2008
How Reddit Top and Hacker Top Programs Were Made
9 comments
24,570 views
July 23, 2008
How to Read Reddit the Fanatic Programmer Way
9 comments
18,347 views
July 22, 2008
A Year of Blogging
12 comments
36,303 views
July 21, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #11: The BitTorrent Song
3 comments
11,130 views
July 18, 2008
How Cybercriminals Steal Money
12 comments
50,102 views
July 17, 2008
Searching and Mining Open Source Code from the Web
2 comments
11,938 views
July 16, 2008
Follow Reddit from the Console
11 comments
30,480 views
July 14, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #10: TECO and DDT
6 comments
13,195 views
July 11, 2008
Three Beautiful Quicksorts
12 comments
65,475 views
July 10, 2008
Follow Hacker News from the Console
15 comments
35,127 views
July 07, 2008
Graduated with a B.Sc. Degree in Physics
25 comments
19,721 views
July 02, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #9: The Free Software Song
3 comments
11,221 views
June 27, 2008
Hacking Videos from Shmoocon
5 comments
48,469 views
June 24, 2008
Solving Google Treasure Hunt Puzzle 4: Prime Numbers
35 comments
57,786 views
June 06, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #8: The Bill Gates Song
2 comments
14,332 views
June 06, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #7: Just One More Hack
5 comments
12,460 views
May 30, 2008
Video Lecture: From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps
5 comments
29,210 views
May 20, 2008
Theorizing from Data by Peter Norvig (Video Lecture)
1 comment
45,856 views
May 13, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #6: The Day the Routers Died
3 comments
17,797 views
May 09, 2008
Videos from Defcon 15 Hacker Conference
6 comments
48,776 views
May 01, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #5: God Wrote in Lisp (The Eternal Flame)
6 comments
26,468 views
April 25, 2008
Learning Python Design Patterns Through Video Lectures
4 comments
51,368 views
April 23, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #4: Model-View-Controller MVC Song
4 comments
30,767 views
April 18, 2008
Video Lecture On My Favorite DBMS - SQLite
5 comments
22,086 views
April 15, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #3: Code Monkey
8 comments
22,998 views
April 11, 2008
Analyzing Keyword Activity on Coding Horror
11 comments
23,627 views
April 08, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #2: Leech Axss is Coming at You!
1 comment
13,589 views
April 04, 2008
Growing a Language by Guy Steele
4 comments
27,395 views
April 01, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #1: Crypto
14 comments
25,330 views
March 28, 2008
Designing RedditRiver.com Website
14 comments
42,772 views
March 25, 2008
Learning Python Programming Language Through Video Lectures
21 comments
177,265 views
March 06, 2008
The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History
47 comments
525,259 views
February 18, 2008
Working Productively in Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet)
57 comments
414,103 views
January 08, 2008
Genetic Algorithms 101
20 comments
40,107 views
November 23, 2007
Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet
21 comments
146,300 views
October 30, 2007
How to Extract Audio Tracks from YouTube Videos
58 comments
314,568 views
October 21, 2007
Picurls.com launches - Making of the Buzziest Picture Website Part II
9 comments
48,134 views
October 14, 2007
Screen VT100/ANSI Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet
19 comments
173,183 views
September 21, 2007
The Making of picurls.com, the Popurls for Pictures, Part I
10 comments
21,460 views
September 15, 2007
My First Interview
0 comment
14,731 views
September 07, 2007
A few words about Digpicz.com
8 comments
14,706 views
September 04, 2007
Designing Digg Picture Website in a Matter of Hours
42 comments
61,270 views
September 02, 2007
Video Lecture on Best Practices in JavaScript Library Design
1 comment
18,508 views
August 28, 2007
Revealing Reddit Score for Just Posted Links with FireFox and GreaseMonkey
4 comments
12,692 views
August 26, 2007
Bjarne Stroustrup's Video Lecture on C++0x Standard
8 comments
53,604 views
August 24, 2007
Plain Text Versions of Sed, ed and AWK Cheat Sheets
3 comments
36,521 views
August 22, 2007
Designing a Reddit Media Website
11 comments
37,943 views
August 20, 2007
Perl's pack/unpack and printf Cheat Sheet
3 comments
53,241 views
August 08, 2007
Learning JavaScript Programming Language through Video Lectures
55 comments
328,301 views
August 05, 2007
Writing a YouTube Video Downloader in VBScript
35 comments
45,814 views
August 04, 2007
Creating a Video Downloader Application using OpenSource Tools (Part II)
11 comments
18,145 views
August 03, 2007
Ed - Unix Text Editor - Cheat Sheet
7 comments
60,810 views
August 02, 2007
How to Upload YouTube Videos Programmatically
72 comments
52,660 views
July 31, 2007
Creating a Video Downloader Application using OpenSource Tools (Part I)
3 comments
20,870 views
July 30, 2007
Sed - UNIX Stream Editor - Cheat Sheet
11 comments
155,154 views
July 21, 2007
Converting YouTube FLVs (Flash Videos) to a Better Format with ffmpeg
14 comments
69,639 views
July 19, 2007
Perl Special Variable Cheat Sheet
2 comments
90,275 views
July 17, 2007
Downloading YouTube Videos with a Perl One-Liner
66 comments
141,888 views
July 15, 2007
Awk, Nawk and GNU Awk Cheat Sheet
10 comments
155,630 views
July 13, 2007
Downloading YouTube Videos with GNU Awk
52 comments
57,571 views
July 09, 2007
About this blog
35 comments
36,716 views
July 09, 2007

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