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jj2026-03-27
a version control system
Site Spec2026-03-18
Stuff To Put On Your Website
Shell Archive From First Principles2026-02-14
shar utils
How to do a code review2026-02-12
a practical guide to reviewing code
Why it is hard to keep in touch with people2026-02-11
have you ever tried correspondence
The Last Blog Post Ever About Markdown2026-01-29
now we can stop talking about it
Books I Read in 20252025-12-26
a year in review
RCS2025-11-18
a really old revision control system that is still worth knowing about today
browsing commits with vim2025-08-31
just a little vim trick
Flatten your data2025-04-09
You could make your data flatter
How to create a PDF archive of some blog posts with pandoc2025-02-15
pandoc is awesome
PDF Crimes2025-02-11
and what to do about them
Best Books of 20242025-02-04
yeah that’s right I read books
table markup ranked worst to best2025-02-03
spoiler it is all bad!
text browsers i have known and loved2024-12-27
in praise of lynx and w3m
Lua is probably rated correctly actually2024-12-27
Not over and not under but just right
ten years of colemak2024-12-04
the keyboard layout that saved my wrists
zathura is a good document viewer2024-10-21
i recommend it for viewing documents
Re: Guitar Driven Development2024-09-29
writing code for making music
Web Applications and Web Documents2024-09-10
a mental model for doing stuff on the internet
Incremental Databases2024-09-07
Evolving data from plain text logs, to recfiles, and finally to sqlite
Smol Finger Client2024-09-01
a little plan / project browser with find and fzf
Against Cynicism2024-08-23
Toward Compassion
how to irc over xmpp2024-08-06
chats within chats
how i use Make and just for builds and tasks2024-08-04
make is for incremental builds and just is a task runner
frontmatter.rec2024-04-15
a consistent metadata schema
templating markdown+yaml frontmatter with rec and awk2024-03-19
smol templating
Try the TAP stack if you hate HTML, CSS, and Javascript!2024-03-14
the most unmaintainable frontend code
marking up abbreviations with awk2024-03-13
awk is pretty great at pattern matching and transforming text
doing a blog2024-03-08
why you even gotta do a thing on the internet
summary of my recent job search2024-03-02
most places will not hire you but at least one will and ghosting is way more common than it ought to be
scope2024-02-25
how scope works in javascript
Visualizing Data with Sparklines2024-02-20
quick text based charts
Groff II2024-02-17
Requests, Escape Sequences, and Macros
TTRPG and RDBMS2024-02-07
Dungeons & Databases
Some books I read in 20232024-01-30
do ya like books I like books
Re: Making a single-file executable with node and esbuild2024-01-29
or Make a singe-file executable with deno
Groff I2024-01-11
whence and wherefore
i got locked out of building my static website2023-11-07
the node.js ecosystem is a shifting pile of quicksand
The Best Books Of 20222022-12-31
books? books!
Lets Read: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs2022-02-22
Chapter 2: Part 1
Lets Read: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs2022-02-15
Chapter 1: Part 2
Lets Read: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs2022-02-09
Chapter 1: Part 1
Lets read: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs2022-02-03
Introduction
Lets read: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs2022-02-03
Series index page
vimwiki2022-01-21
how and why i use vimwiki for keeping notes and tracking tasks
Review: Freewrite Traveler2022-01-16
First Impressions
recfiles2022-01-07
you wont believe this one weird database
Books I Read in 20212021-12-30
a year in review
Pickles2021-12-01
and how they come to be pickled
Top Ten Things I Like About Deno2021-11-21
a review of the javascript runtime
making a static website with nextjs and contentful2021-10-10
my experience using nextjs as a ssg
Counting Apples2021-07-30
The flexibility of implicit functional calls in forth
Moving from Github2021-07-05
I want to not be on Github any more
Books I Read in 20202021-03-25
A year in review
expressions with line numbers in vim2021-03-24
Some more vim tomfoolery
Registers2021-03-21
a vim story
how to name a computer2021-02-07
a convention for naming personal devices
Pouring water into cups2020-12-03
An example of how to solve a problem
How to theme a website2020-11-20
a practical guide to site themes with a tiny bit of design system theory
how to use slack2020-09-21
a practical guide to communicating effectively on slack
alien alphabet2020-09-07
a very good question for technical interviews
place attachment2020-09-02
a practical framework for loving where you work
phone numbers2020-08-16
a reflection on personal growth and code quality
on bookmarks and note taking2020-07-07
I am moving my collection of links from a naive bookmarking system to a more intentional centralized knowledge base.
setting up python on macos2020-06-23
a newcomers guide
m42020-06-17
the one true templating language
zsh suffix alias2020-06-16
zsh suffix aliases are a quirky little hack that allow you to define an alias for a file extension.
Racism and Oppressive Language in Software Development2020-06-12
small ways to be anti-racist
mentoring2020-05-29
what it is and what it is not, and who does it
Github CI2020-05-25
a dive into private keys, private repos, and continuous integration
Reducing Complexity2020-01-28
the most worthwhile pursuit
Markdown and makefiles2020-01-01
using Make to make websites
Books I Read in 20192019-12-23
the results of having had my nose in a book for most of the year
Functional Factories in JavaScript2019-12-15
An argument against using classes in JavaScript, and using factories instead.