Ken Shirriff's blog

Here are Viking Dishwasher error codes for anyone who needs them. I was visting family over Easter and the Viking dishwasher quit working -...

While trying to learn Spanish, I find a few Spanish words are similar to other words and keep confusing me. This article summarizes them, m...

I recently saw a Master cable lock for sale with the interesting text "Lore Ipsum!" and "Lorem Ipsue!" underneath the w...

I've been experimenting with QR codes (2-d bar codes) with my mobile phone. While helping my daughter assemble a Lego® spaceship, I ha...

Java is very much in full retreat. -- R. Loui Professor Ronald Loui has an interesting article on the rise of scripting languages ( In Pr...

The total world's population of Haskell programmers fits in a 747. And if that goes down, nobody would even notice. -- Erik Meijer I ...

A recent post quotes Alan Kay's statement that expressing Lisp in itself is the " Maxwell's Equations of Software ": Ye...

Did you know that Arc has been a popular computer language since 2004? Pretty good for a language released in January 2008. I discovered A...

If you were around during the early days of the web, you surely remember the message Error 404 Not found - file doesn't exist or is rea...

In case anyone thinks continuations are straightforward, I've ported Eugene Kohlbecker's classic Scheme puzzle to Arc. What does (m...