What is Philosopher Koder?
Philosopher Koder is a comic about math and code. The main feature follows the Computer Science department of a small university. Frequent meta-comics occur as well. The material usually comes from my own experience at real universities, plus random thoughts that occur to me while I should be doing real work.

Can I reproduce/extend/reprint/repost your work?
Short answer: yes. PK is released under a quite permissive CC license. The only restriction is basically that you don't pretend you wrote it (that would be untrue, you know?). Add something like "From Philosopher Koder", and you'll have my blessing. It's also 100% free (although I would appreciate a donation to keep PK alive).

Who wrote the backend?
Me, which is why if you find a bug, you should come whine about it—(seriously, try to break it; let me know). It's almost 100% PHP, and generates each page's content on the fly, which is a mixed blessing. The update schedule is completely managed by the server without using a cron-job, which I think is a pretty snazzy accomplishment. Also, there's the added benefit that updates occur exactly on time (to within a second). Yes, the HTML is terrible, but (I think?) it works, so it's irrelevant.

Yeah, but what's with this update schedule? $$2^{18}$$ seconds? What gives?
Computers don't work like people do, and they're rather unperturbed by the erraticism of our swiftly tilting planet—that is to say, day/night cycles mean about as much to computers as the frequency of AC power personally matters to you. This is a comic about computers, so PK updates once every (minimum) 3.03407 days. If you must get bleeding-edge updates, try the RSS feed, which may or may not work. If I haven't updated, that probably means I forgot and the server ran out of content. If I didn't mention anything in the news, you can let me know by email (it could also be a server problem).

What do you do in real life?
I'm a computer graphics researcher. I specialize in computer graphics (GPGPU and realtime light transport, if you're interested). I have a PhD in CS (and BS in CS and BS in Math). I make many projects, which usually are arcane, unfinished, and beautifully coded. My personal website is geometrian.com.

Is the comic dead?
Not, uh, formally, but realistically speaking it has been years since the last update. Put it in your RSS feed, and maybe, when you least expect it . . .