2025-08-29
You no longer need JavaScript
lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-jsAn overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
2025-06-17
Debugging tricks for IntelliJ
andreabergia.com/blog/2025/06/debugging-tricks-for-intellijI have been using IntelliJ Idea at work for a decade or so by now, and it’s been a reliable companion. JetBrains IDEs have a bit of a reputation for being slow, but their feature set is incredible: powerful refactoring tools, a great VCS UI (though I like magit even more!), a huge number of supported frameworks, integration with just about any testing library for any language, code coverage tools, powerful debuggers, etc.
2025-06-12
Always do Extra
www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2021/always-do-extra.phpExtra is different than More. Extra is finishing those two screens, but then researching a new library for form validation that might reduce the boilerplate code. Or it's learning ways to protect against common security vulnerabilities from data entry. These little off-ramps from the main highway of Normal Work could be dead-ends and not have any practical value to the project. But they might also be important contributions. And that's the thing with Extra. While the tangible value to the project is uncertain (it could be nothing this time or it could be something), the value to you is real.
2025-05-28
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monorepo-ingredients2025-03-21
Life Altering Postgresql Patterns
mccue.dev/pages/3-11-25-life-altering-postgresql-patterns2025-03-13
Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot
spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pages-with-guile-hoot.html2024-10-24
Rust Prism
registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/rust-prism2024-09-19
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown
www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/02/02/blogging_in_djot_instead_of_markdown2024-08-09
Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes
wouterj.nl/2024/08/git-notesCode discussions contain relevant information. Isn’t it a shame that we
keep these in the centralized GitHub/GitLab servers, far away from our
decentralized Git code? As soon as we move provider, we’ll lose all old
discussions! And how do you ever find the pull requests back from 5
years ago? Symfony has implemented a lightweight solution to this problem
years ago using a less-known feature of Git: Git Notes.
2024-06-27
plainweb
www.plainweb.devplainweb is a framework using HTMX, SQLite and TypeScript for less complexity and more joy.
2024-06-26
A (more) Modern CSS Reset
piccalil.li/blog/a-more-modern-css-reset2024-06-19
Avoiding complexity with systemd
mgdm.net/weblog/systemdUsing systemd to avoid having to write some risky code
2024-06-13
Category Theory for Programmers: The Preface
bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-prefaceThe magic of dependency resolution
ochagavia.nl/blog/the-magic-of-dependency-resolutionSolving SAT via Positive Supercompilation
hirrolot.github.io/posts/sat-supercompilation.htmlBuilding Go programs with Nix Flakes
xeiaso.net//blog/nix-flakes-go-programsMy personal C coding style as of late 2023
nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/08An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map
nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/30Avoid Linux locking up in low memory situations using earlyoom
dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-09-28-earlyoom.htmlThis article presents the program earlyoom to prevent a Linux system to lock up in low memory situations.