Blogs about Development

I read and liked Andrew Israel's I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again. It makes a lot of sense! He basically says that his startup prioritizes developer productivity over performance. …

I got the chance to visit the Northwest Computer Museum today, which was really cool. I’m a bit of a fan of older computers, I think there’s something charming about them. So when I found …

Wow, another year has passed. And now another review.It's time for the list, that I usually compile monthly for my newsletter.January Scraped a bunch of taxi stands 🚕 Ordered & printed misbrands stickers 👾 Experimented …

Frédéric Chopin's Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4, with the right-hand part played on a Commodore 64 running Qwertuoso, demonstrating the new Flappy-Bird volume control mode.

Preamble: my content It has been a while since I’ve written a general “what I’m working on” post, so I’m fixing that now. It has been a busy year — I last published a newsletter …

I previously wrote about how impressed I was with winget, the official Windows package manager. This morning went to upgrade some packages on my system and received the following error: winget upgrade --all -h Package …

For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the …

False Sharing versus Perfect Placement This is part 3 of an informal series on database scalability. The previous parts were on NoSQL, and Hot Keys. In the last installment, we looked at hot keys and …

Nowadays, Alpine Linux is one of the most popular options for container base images. Many people (maybe including you) use it for anything and everything. Some people use it because of its small size, some …

Scott Everett (via Hacker News, Reddit): After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company …

Your CV (or résumé) tells a story. You want the story that it tells to be that you are an excellent candidate for the role that you are applying for. Your CV’s most important job …

I asked people whether I should post about my experimental #langdev ... And they asked me to do it, so I'll do it. Disclaimer: First and foremost I am doing this for FUN!!! There's no …

If you see a page offering a download of NetNewsWire for Android, please remember that it’s a scam and you should definitely not install it. We’ve seen one such page, and heard there may be …

This is a double weeknote. For a big chunk of these 14 days we were pretty unproductive due to sick days. Three major projects were coming to a head and hopefully, the next few weeks …

I moved the Stringscope project infrastructure from a GitHub gist to a full repo. The gist is now unmaintained and links to the repo. Announcing my new Interlisp project Braincons I motivated setting up its …

I recently ran into a problem that seems to be present in a wide range of WebAuthn tutorials, but I don’t know where it originated.

Do you have a public library card or go to a university? Then you can watch the Oscar-nominated documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life for free on Kanopy! The film sweeps from Rand’s childhood …

Can you trust your colleagues to write good code? Can you trust yourself? I've recently noticed a trend among some agile thought leaders. They talk about trust and gatekeeping. It goes something like this: Why …