A Brief History of QWERTY

Qwerty is the default layout for most keyboards. But where did qwerty come from?

Science is always better if you work together

If you read my previous post, Introducing Shience: What it is and how to use it [https://davidzych.com/introducing-shience-what-it-is-and-how-to-use-it/], you'll know that I was working on a C# port of Github's Scientist [https://github.com/github/scientist] library. It turns out Phil Haack [http://haacked.com/] of Github/Microsoft/

Introducing Shience: What it is and how to use it

Shience is a .NET library for carefully refactoring critical paths. It is built on .NET Core, currently targets .NET 4.5.1 and DNX Core 5.0, and is available on Github [https://github.com/davezych/shience] and Nuget [https://www.nuget.org/packages/shience/]. Keep in mind that it's

Setting up SSL with Lets Encrypt on Ubuntu and Nginx

Let's Encrypt entered public beta recently. What is Let's Encrypt [https://letsencrypt.org/]? > Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). So, basically, free https. Yay!

Abusing Emoji in Windows

Inspired by this post by Zach Holman [http://zachholman.com/posts/abusing-emoji/], let's see what Windows 10 will allow us to use emoji for. First... some history Unicode Most computer systems today (e.g. Windows, OSX, Android, iOS) use a thing called Unicode to represent text. Since computers work in