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15 Days in Dired
Wherein the author challenged himself to do all file management with Dired for 15 days.
sometime in 2025
A magical and deceptive Mongoose
Wherein the author debugs weird behavior of the Mongoose ORM.
sometime in 2021
How does cURL know not to print binary responses?
The author wonders how HTTP clients figure out whether the responses are binary or text.
sometime in 2023
Getting the most out of Gnome with tiles, windows, and shortcuts
The author writes how he uses Gnome to get things done faster. Not an article about GTD.
sometime in 2025
Calculating Hamming distances in Go
Haaammmmiiiinnnnggggg......
sometime in 2021
I wore a G-SHOCK for a month and it changed how I look at software development
Wherein the author sings high praise for his new watch.
sometime in 2022
Leader elections with Postgres advisory locks
Demonstrates that Postgres provides a 'good-enough' system for arbitrary application level locks.
sometime in 2022
What I learned after answering MongoDB questions on Stack Overflow for 20 days
Because the author was bored and in want of some street cred.
sometime in 2022
Publishing NPM packages to the Github Registry
A short 4-step tutorial on publishing NPM packages to Github; because Github's documentation unnecessarily complicates it.
sometime in 2021
I tried to learn Erlang for a month and failed
Wherein the author recounts his failure to learn Erlang, a sour grapes story.
sometime in 2022
Processing text with State Machines
Wherein the author attempts to parse sitemap.xml files with hand-built state machines.
sometime in 2020