I just learned that
you can use it to review a git commit like this and I thought that was really
cool.

Extra 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.

Solving AoC on the DS with Rust.

A fun, hands-on guide to writing your own compiler for a real-world programming language.

A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability

plainweb is a framework using HTMX, SQLite and TypeScript for less complexity and more joy.

Featureful zsh prompt.

This article presents the program earlyoom to prevent a Linux system to lock up in low memory situations.

There’s plenty of information out there on how to scale Django to handle numerous requests per second, but most of it…