Mason Wheeler
We use Mercurial at work. It’s nothing particularly new to me; I’ve been working with it ever since SDL, a major open-source graphics library that I’ve been using and contributing to for a long time… … Read more
9 years ago in Delphi, Thoughts0
Mason Wheeler
I was compiling a new branch at work today, which used a different version of Delphi than the one I had been working on, and along the way I ran into tons of spurious File… … Read more
9 years ago in Delphi, Thoughts0
Mason Wheeler
I’ve written before about the history of steel, how it’s been around for millennia, but was of limited use to civilization as a whole until the details of its manufacture were published. It’s impossible to… … Read more
10 years ago in Thoughts0
Mason Wheeler
My brother lives in Provo, Utah, one of the few cities in the country fortunate enough to have Google Fiber service. And they are truly fortunate; he describes it as awesome and amazing, the kind… … Read more
10 years ago in Thoughts0
Mason Wheeler
I don’t think anyone can argue that technology makes many aspects of our lives simpler and more convenient, but it often brings complications with it as well, as we all know. But every once in… … Read more
10 years ago in Thoughts0
Mason Wheeler
StackOverflow just announced that they’re opening up yet another foreign language version of SO, this one in Japanese. They’ve already done this in Portuguese, and now it appears they’re continuing on the same path. When… … Read more
10 years ago in StackOverflow, Thoughts0