Dominic FoxPlaying Wordle with PythonWordle is a fun word-guessing game with similar rules to Bulls and Cows. The player has six turns in which to guess a five-letter word, and…6 min read·Jan 1, 2022--3--3
Dominic FoxNot Quite AdultsAbigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters opens with an “author’s note” briskly affirming her…11 min read·Dec 4, 2020--1--1
Dominic FoxOn MeritIt is disconcerting to see the release, with much fanfare, of a “Post-Meritocracy Manifesto” for the IT industry that contains the sentence…8 min read·May 25, 2018----
Dominic FoxSome notes on null-intolerant JavaNull-intolerant Java is Java in which there are no internal null checks. No public method in a null-intolerant library ever returns null…5 min read·Dec 6, 2017----
Dominic FoxA Slight Case Of OverfittingHere’s a handwavey description of what a certain class of machine-learning algorithms do: they squish a sensation space down into a…5 min read·Oct 11, 2017----
Dominic FoxThree Principles for Future Writing about “Artificial Intelligence”I would like to propose the following principles for future writing about AI, social media, the digital mapping of the human etc.:2 min read·Oct 10, 2017--1--1
Dominic FoxIntroducing FluviusFluvius is a small Java library which was created to address a common scenario in the transformation of “enterprise” software systems…5 min read·Jun 7, 2017----
Dominic FoxThings I Have Learned (So Far) In IT ConsultancyThe best answers are usually simple, but getting to simple is often complicated4 min read·Apr 19, 2017----
Dominic FoxBadiou’s “four objections” to the idea of a post-work future(the following is a precis of a section of Alain Badiou’s response to Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, for the benefit of those who’d like…3 min read·Jan 7, 2017----
Dominic FoxTransits: Notes on the Xenofeminist ManifestoIt’s a bold gesture, to be sure: to insist on the conjugation of lived experience with stringent formal abstraction, on the compatibility…5 min read·Jun 2, 2015----