2025-10-17
Automerge
automerge.orgAutomerge is a local-first sync engine for multiplayer apps that works offline, prevents conflicts, and runs fast.
2025-08-25
Everything I know about good API design
www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design2025-07-03
Beamer Viewer
beamerviewer.euxane.euThis web app displays notes and slides in separate windows,
keeping both synchronised.
It accepts simple, double-width, or double-height PDF presentations:
2025-06-13
What I talk about when I talk about IRs
bernsteinbear.com/blog/irsI have a lot of thoughts about the design of compiler intermediate representations (IRs). In this post I’m going to try and communicate some of those ideas and why I think they are important.
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.
2025-03-13
Building interactive web pages with Guile Hoot
spritely.institute/news/building-interactive-web-pages-with-guile-hoot.html2025-02-04
Running a Debian Sid on Ubuntu
blogops.mixinet.net/posts/incus2024-12-20
Visitor Pattern Considered Pointless - Use Pattern Switches Instead
nipafx.dev/java-visitor-pattern-pointlessIn modern Java, the visitor pattern is no longer needed. Using sealed types and switches with pattern matching achieves the same goals with less code and less complexity.
2024-09-19
Blogging in Djot instead of Markdown
www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/02/02/blogging_in_djot_instead_of_markdown2024-08-28
There can't be only one
www.b-list.org/weblog/2024/aug/27/highlander-problemThere's a concept that I've heard called by a lot of different names, but my favorite name for it is …
2024-07-09
Using use in Gleam
erikarow.land/notes/using-use-gleam2024-07-05
JavaScript-Free Sidenotes in Hugo
danilafe.com/blog/sidenotes2024-06-24
Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites
danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeaturesIn this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites
2024-06-20
Go's 'range over function' iterators and avoiding iteration errors
utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIteratorsAndAvoidingMistakes2024-06-14
A useful shell prompt
blog.meain.io/2022/my-shell-promptFeatureful zsh prompt.
pounce - IRC bouncer
git.causal.agency/pounce/about2024-06-11
Optimizing Font Files for the Modern Web
documentation.platformos.com/best-practices/performance/optimizing-font-filesSelf-serve dashboards
briefer.cloud/blog/posts/self-serve-bi-mythSales pitches are the only place where “self-serve dashboards" work. In the real world, it's a different story.
Why "business" people don't use metabase/power-bi.
Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM!
christopher.engineering/en/blog/gleam-overviewFrom Erlang, to Elixir and now, GLEAM!?
2024-06-10
soju IRC bouncer
soju.imsoju is a user-friendly IRC bouncer. soju connects to upstream IRC servers on behalf of the user to provide extra functionality. soju supports many features such as multiple users, numerous IRCv3 extensions, chat history playback and detached channels. It is well-suited for both small and large deployments.