programming
Back to Basic
Wading my way through the mess that is programming today
Programmers on the Verge of Extinction
Examining the parallels between art, AI, and the existential threat to programmers
Alcove: An RSS Reader for the Open Web
Pushing forward the consumption of content without the invasion of privacy
Concerning Omarchy and Distro Philosophy
Some thoughts on how distros should be approached and where people should go
Programming Bowls
Realizing how much of the programming space is just bowls
A Roundup of ICFP/SPLASH 2025 happenings
Five-part series overview covering workshops, tutorials, talks and keynotes from ICFP/SPLASH 2025 in Singapore.
What I learnt at ICFP/SPLASH 2025 about OCaml, Hazel and FP
Highlights from ICFP/SPLASH 2025 including Hazel live programming, OCaml AI tooling, formally verified GC, and cross-community discussions between Haskell and OCaml.
It's time to go post-POSIX at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
VMIL keynote arguing for post-POSIX shared memory interfaces like io_uring in language runtimes for high-performance concurrent computing.
Jane Street and Docker on moving to OCaml 5 at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Jane Street's production deployment of OCaml 5 and Docker's migration to direct-style programming with Eio presented at ICFP.
Holding an OxCaml tutorial at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Tutorial at ICFP 2025 on OxCaml extensions for performance engineering with modes and locals.
Programming for the Planet at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Report on second Programming for the Planet workshop featuring papers on climate modeling, geospatial computation and planetary-scale collaborative systems.
On Wheels and Reinvention
Building the same thing close-to-home can be the right choice for your project, even if it feels like reinventing the wheel.
On Wheels and Reinvention
Building the same thing close-to-home can be the right choice for your project, even if it feels like reinventing the wheel.
On Wheels and Reinvention
Building the same thing close-to-home can be the right choice for your project, even if it feels like reinventing the wheel.
On Wheels and Reinvention
Building the same thing close-to-home can be the right choice for your project, even if it feels like reinventing the wheel.
Turning Solidity NatSpec into Interactive Markdown UI
An exploration on how NatSpec could be used to not only maintain context but provide user interfaces
Learning Rust With AI
A glimpse into a better way of learning to code, where you put the LLM in the backseat while you drive
Vibe Coding and Kodak Cameras
A perspective on the rise of AI coding and how it relates to technological shifts throughout history
New Rust, Old Drama
The periodic Rust-induced conflicts happening with the Linux kernel hint at underlying generational problems facing the project. And it’s already led a prominent maintainer to quit.
Why You Should Learn jq in 2024
Discover why learning jq isn't just about boosting your productivity, it's about becoming a more curious developer
Building a Guestbook with PGlite, Clerk, and Pinata
A quick walkthough of how I built a guestbook for my website
Leaving Neovim for Zed
A journey through text editors and how I landed on Zed after years of Neovim
Dead On A Friday
The Friday night death slot, and why Fridays carry such a hard-to-shake reputation as a place where good broadcast television goes to die.
Building Snippets.so
Insights into why snippets.so was built and the tech stack behind it
A Terminal Based Workflow
A deeper look at why a integrated terminal workflow is more than just using vim
Why I Learned Vim
A brief look at my history and how ordinary jobs lead to learning programming and Vim/Neovim
Taming the whale: introduction to Docker
Hook, line, and sinker
Source Tags & Codes
The saga of the Missouri governor reflects a failure by the powerful to embrace curiosity—curiosity encouraged by the HTML language he fails to understand.
I Love LAMP
Giving some well-deserved appreciation to the LAMP stack, a key building block of the modern-day internet that you use daily. It’s everywhere. It may never die.
React for Beginners: Build a To-Do List
COBOLed Together
An essential part of the computer era’s birth, the programming language COBOL still hangs on—which is good for would-be retirees who know the language.