The cookiecutter project is facing a fork. Their problems feel like a clash between models: capitalism, and the gift culture.

A few years ago, I decided to start tracking my finances again. After slogging it through with spreadsheets and double-entry for a few months, I went looking for a software option. From my quick survey, the personal finance software market was a wasteland, especially if you’re not willing to give access to your bank account to a web-app.

I hack on OpenBSD in my spare time. (Yeah, that infrequently.) Every year, around hackathon time, I find myself hunting through the guts of the Operating System sources, learning a new trick, or two. Being able to learn like this is the main reason I use open source. This is an example of a typical learn-by-doing session.

Here’s a computational question: how do I tell if an integer is a perfect square?

Why is it impossible to find a nontrivial example of someone using little-oh notation?