Blogs about Development

This story, too, begins with noise. I was browsing the radio waves with a software radio, looking for mysteries to accompany my ginger tea. I had started to notice a wide-band spiky signal on a …

I find that playing the “I’m the leader, this is the decision, go forth and do it” card is not fun and almost always wrought with unintended consequences. A notable exception is teams that fall …

I’m excited to launch a big 2.0 update to my album-focussed music player, Longplay. If you’re interested in the app itself and what’s new, head over to longplay.rocks or the App Store. In this post …

I had the hankering for tinkering the KDE application style. The default style by KDE, Breeze, is pretty nice as is, but there are small things I'd like to modify. There's Klassy which is quite …

I used to use twitter quite a bit, but now it’s run by a hard-right weirdo who wants to defeat the “woke mind virus” and pays awful people including Andrew Tate large amounts of money …

I’ve been thinking a lot about the NY Times Connections game lately, mainly because my family keeps playing it wrong. They’d get mad at me if I told them that, so I’m telling you. As …

This year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and quite frankly personal mental health. My hope is that those who want to learn from me find it …

When I set out to build a simple computer with an FPGA ( here, here, and here), my end goal was always to display something on a computer monitor. VGA was a natural choice because …

Docker is a great tool for building and running containerized applications, but it is not the best solution for running services on Linux. In this post, I will explain why I prefer using systemd units …

We've spent the past two years building, iterating, experimenting, and refactoring the Bonfire codebase — to explore our assumptions, co-design with our community, and stretch the limits of social networking, all while having fun! We …

I pushed a couple updates to Journal, my command line journaling tool today. As a reminder, you can add a natural language argument to your journal command which will set the date of the entry, …

The AxiDraw software, including the Inkscape plug-in, the AxiDraw CLI, and the Python module, offers a pretty neat way to control the plotting process with special escape codes in layer names. vpype doesn’t have an …

Installing ruby through asdf on Apple Silicon Macs1 will attempt to build a custom openssl for each install because it can’t find openssl from homebrew in /usr/local, as that’s now installed in /opt/homebrew. This means …

The one place in this house where I’ve always felt comfortable is my office. I’ve spent the last 9 years building it up to almost exactly where I want it (I still can’t stand the …

I tag blog posts rather erratically, and keep meaning to go back and systematically taxonomize my thousands of past posts. One thing that my new blogging platform includes is another way to highlight particular posts …

I’ve spent a lot of time editing Wikipedia. I do it for many reasons, but one of the sillier ones floating around the margins of my consciousness is that I like to think that, by …

I've mentioned Kannan's proof that \(\Sigma_2^p\) does not have \(n^2\) size-circuits before. A similar proof shows that \(\Sigma_2^E = \mathrm{NTIME}^\mathrm{NP}(2^{O(n)})\) does not have polynomial-size circuits in general. You can create a language in the third-level …

I have not been able to make as much progress on moss over the last 14 days or so as I would like, in large part because of limited time due to getting some exciting …