Articles
2013
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May 12, 2013
The Wrong Type of Karma
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April 20, 2013
Starting The Matasano Crypto Challenges
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April 14, 2013
Big Ints Between Python, PyPy, Go and Java
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March 21, 2013
The Mystery of the Spotty Animated GIF
2012
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August 9, 2012
Facebook, for the sake of speed, fake it like Instagram!
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August 8, 2012
Installing Vanilla Forums with performance in mind
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June 7, 2012
Password Security: Why salting with usernames is no good
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May 15, 2012
No magic: why everyone should program
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April 27, 2012
The Dining Cryptographer's Problem
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April 24, 2012
Fast Facebook OAuth Login
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April 23, 2012
The Facebook (Maybe) API
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April 20, 2012
A Lean Life
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April 12, 2012
A Light Benchmark of Hetzner's 512MB VPS
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April 3, 2012
Eric Ries & The Lean Startup Methodology
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February 19, 2012
PJAX and Flask
2011
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December 15, 2011
Chromium Fractal plated Heisenbugs, Mandelbugs and Schrödinbugs
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December 2, 2011
Shift-Reduce Parsing with a Graph-Structured Stack
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November 29, 2011
404 Marketing backed by Programming Zen
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July 18, 2011
The First Honours Hurdle
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July 11, 2011
Preliminary Timeline for Honours
2010
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February 1, 2010
Google Internship Reflection
2009
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October 26, 2009
Programming Interview Questions: mind teasers in binary
2008
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June 1, 2008
Python to Java - A Survivalist's Guide
Hi, I'm Smerity!
Hi, I'm Stephen Merity, better known as Smerity.
I spend my time doing what I enjoy, which is primarily some mix of coding and teaching. I've not yet had to live through a job I didn't enjoy.
Sydney University:
BIT (University Medal + First Class Honours)
Harvard University:
MS in CSE (starting August 2013)