More or less independent web dude washed ashore in Japan.
More or less recently more less than more.
More recently also less Japan and more Europe.
Is writing articles about topics that keep popping up regularly on Stackoverflow but seldom get the treatment they require, like:
- What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text
- The Great Escapism (Or: What You Need To Know To Work With Text Within Text)
- The Definitive Guide To PHP's isset And empty
- Handling Unicode Front To Back In A Web App
- How Not To Kill Your Testability Using Statics
Sometimes publishes smaller fallout projects on his Github account, like:
Japanese Language & Usage
Q&A for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Japanese language
Area 51
Stack Exchange Network staging zone, where users come together to build new Q&A sites
Meta Stack Overflow
Q&A for meta-discussion of the Stack Exchange family of Q&A websites
German Language & Usage
Q&A for speakers of German wanting to discuss the finer points of the language and translation
Programmers
Q&A for professional programmers interested in conceptual questions about software development
Ask Different
Q&A for power users of Apple hardware and software
English Language & Usage
Q&A for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts
Server Fault
Q&A for professional system and network administrators
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Q&A for science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts
Board & Card Games
Q&A for people who like playing board games, designing board games or modifying the rules of existing board games
Physics
Q&A for active researchers, academics and students of physics
Unix & Linux
Q&A for users of Linux, FreeBSD and other Un*x-like operating systems.
Geographic Information Systems
Q&A for cartographers, geographers and GIS professionals
User Experience
Q&A for user experience researchers and experts
Answers OnStartups
Q&A for entrepreneurs looking to start or run a new business