2025-10-24
How to Run 1:1s as an Engineering Manager
justoffbyone.com2025-06-16
CSS Classes considered harmful
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmfulThe solution to all of these problems
I humbly put forward that modern web development provides us all the utilities to move away from class names and implement something much more robust, with some fairly straightforward changes:
Attributes
Attributes allow us to parameterise a component using a key-value representation, very similar to Map<string, T>. Browsers come with a wealth of selector functions to parse the values of an attribute.
2025-05-23
share_target - Web application manifest
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Manifest/Reference/share_targetThe share_target manifest member allows installed Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to be registered as a share target in the system's share dialog.
2025-01-21
Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us
overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us2025-01-17
Earthstar
earthstar-project.orgStorage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.
2024-12-17
Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS
sailor.li/aocnds.htmlSolving AoC on the DS with Rust.
2024-11-04
Writing secure Go code
jarosz.dev/article/writing-secure-go-codeSecurity testing starts with understanding vulnerabilities. The CVE website lists known software flaws. The OWASP Top Ten highlights common weaknesses. With this knowledge, we can improve our Go development. This article shows how to put in place robust practices. They are to: fuzz inputs, verify dependencies, and use static analysis tools (SAST).
2024-10-21
init.py files are optional. Here’s why you should still use them
dev.arie.bovenberg.net/blog/still-use-init-py2024-09-02
Parsing awk is tricky
www.raygard.net/awkdoc/pages/awk_parsing_is_tricky.htmlA somewhat compact implementation of the awk programming language
2024-07-15
"GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software
mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/07/12/github-is-starting-to-feel-like-legacy-softwareI’ve used a lot of tools over the years, which means I’ve seen a lot of tools hit a plateau. That’s not always a problem; sometimes …
2024-07-03
Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
samueloph.dev/blog/announcing-wcurl-a-curl-wrapper-to-download-files2024-06-27
plainweb
www.plainweb.devplainweb is a framework using HTMX, SQLite and TypeScript for less complexity and more joy.
2024-06-26
A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference
reasonableapproximation.net/2019/05/05/hindley-milner.html2024-06-20
Go's 'range over function' iterators and avoiding iteration errors
utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoIteratorsAndAvoidingMistakes2024-06-14
CAUSAL.AGENCY(7)
causal.agencyI make mostly IRC software in C. I like OpenBSD but also the GPL. I just want to read books and try to learn to be kinder. When I can I'd like to talk to strangers and experience more magic.
2024-06-13
Category Theory in Context
math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/context.pdfMacaroons Escalated Quickly
fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quicklyA simple, arena-backed, generic dynamic array for C
nullprogram.com/blog/2023/10/05Optimal SQLite settings for Django
gcollazo.com/optimal-sqlite-settings-for-djangoThere’s plenty of information out there on how to scale Django to handle numerous requests per second, but most of it…
2024-06-09
The Hare programming language
harelang.orgHare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, high performance tasks.