Blogs about Development

Nordic Semiconductor recently made their new IoT prototyping platform, the Thingy:91 X, generally available. The Thingy:91 X is an upgrade to their existing prototyping platform, the Thingy:91, replacing the nRF9160 System-in-Package (SiP) with an nRF9151 …

This past weekend I was fortunate to be a participant in the “Relay FM 10th Anniversary Extravaganza”, a live show in London celebrating Relay’s decade of podcasting. Relay is the home of Under the Radar. …

I’ve spent the better part of 2023 and 2024 trying to imagine the specific changes we technology nerds could make to improve things somewhat. Meme remix of Matt Bors’s comic and Stan Kelly’s Sickos Yes …

In my notes on part 4 of The Art and Science of CAP I make a number of references to functions as first class citizens, and show the parallel with queries also in CAP having …

I’m not the first to write about how Jujutsu won me over. I’ve seen it off and on, and each time it came across my feed it was bumped a bit higher in my “list …

Learn how to use CollectRows, RowToStructByName, CollectOneRow, RowToStructByPos and ForEachRow

Over the past couple of years I’ve slowly stopped using twitter. Initially I was just tweeting less, while still reading lots of it. Then as they slowly broke Tweetbot by removing APIs I slowly just …

Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases …

I often think about writing a feature like writing a story. If I do my job well, it is coherent and easy to read, write, and maintain. When there's a lot of indirection, it feels …

Suhas Hey o1, I was reading a blog post from Lonza titled “Better, Faster Pharma Manufacturing with Lonza’s AI Route Design” and I was wondering if you could help me understand the synthetic steps in …

Node 23 was released this week, and the hot ticket item probably is the fact that you can now require() files that use ESM (import/export). This is helpful because ESM and CommonJS (require/module.exports) are kind …

I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it's only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it. When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. …

Let’s talk about the basic concept of the "making app". I’ve written about this before, and demoed it in some of my public project walk-throughs, but there’s no single straightforward explanation out there, so let’s …

All of my budgeted blogwriting time is going to Logic for Programmers. Should be back early 2025. (I’m still writing the weekly newsletter.)

Hire meLooking for a new role. Expertise in cryptography, security, networking, reversing. Dev, ops, security. Amongst other things I've authored a QUIC implementation, a Let's Encrypt client and an RFC. I gave a talk about …

I’m pretty sure reading /r/AmItheAsshole is harmful to my psyche, and yet… … and yet why shouldn’t I be able to participate in this collectively harmful behavior? I don’t have good enough stories so I …

I have adopted uv for a lot of Python development. I'm also a heavy user of direnv, which I like as a tool for setting up project-specific environments. Much like Hynek describes, I've found uv …

I’m evaluating the usability of GitHub merge queues under a set of conditions that makes merge queues hard: pull requests have a high probability of failing CI when merged together despite passing on their own. …

Donald Trump is a gross villain and a traitor to our country. He’s a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and head of a criminal organization; he works with criminals and he pardons criminals; he’s a narcissist …