Micropuzzles is a charming book from the early 1980s by a chap called J.J. Clessa. It is a sort of forerunner of Project Euler, containing little puzzles aimed at computer hobbyists who have acquired those newfangled micros and are looking for something challenging to do with their machines.The …

A while back I wrote a post called Javascript: the Weird parts primarily for my own amusement. It listed some of my personal favourite wtfjs-type Javascript idiosyncracies. In this post I want to look in more depth at one of those idiosyncracies. I want to investigate exactly why Math.max() is les …

Learning Haskell by working my way through the Real World Haskell book and the huge variety of online resources recently has reignited my curiosity about “proper” computer science. The sort with maths. I’ve picked up most of my maths as a side effect of hacking code, so I have b …

Turing's 1936 paper on Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem is something of a geek classic, introducing important concepts like the Universal Turing Machine. I’m no mathemetician even though I r …