Collected essays

It’s time to kill the web

Something is going on. The people are unhappy. The spectre of civil unrest stalks our programming communities.

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, and the talks I’ve given have led directly to the creation of several startups. I’ve talked about Bitcoin on Sky TV…

Graal & Truffle

An obscure research project could radically accelerate innovation in programming language design

Since the dawn of computing our industry has been engaged on a never ending quest to build the perfect language…

How did classical Ripple work?

Remembering pre-Bitcoin designs for digital money

The New Battleground for Free Speech

A transcript of a UK political speech from January 2019

The future of AI is entertainment

The most attention grabbing part of Star Trek’s Holodeck is the way…

Meta-historical conspiracies: Part 2

The problems of astronomical dating methods

Modern garbage collection: Part 2

A look at what the newest generation of Java GCs can do