Blogs about Development

Longlegs is a comedic drama about an autistic FBI investigator who revisits her childhood trauma. Nicolas Cage plays a religious schizophrenic dollmaker—an exact description of my own mother. Does the dollmaker make the dolls? No, …

Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian Freeform is an extremely small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created …

Let’s Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities CAP? Again? Still? Brewer’s CAP theorem, and Gilbert and Lynch’s formalization of it, is the first introduction to hard trade-offs for many distributed systems engineers. Going by …

Packer is no longer supported; time to migrate to lazy; also, I decided to stop using vim-go, replacing it with go.nvim

Chances are that you never touched and maybe haven't even heard about Python's weakref module. While it might not be commonly used in your code, it's fundamental to inner workings of many libraries, frameworks and …

Lemon Squeezy Team (via Hacker News): In 2020, when the world gave us lemons, we decided to make lemonade. We imagined a world where selling digital products would be as simple as opening a lemonade …

I really enjoyed attending and speaking at LeadDev Berlin in 2023. Here are just a few of the things that I took away from the conference. When to make quick decisions I learned the most …

Last week, I was listening to the CoRecursive podcast interview with PowerShell’s lead architect, Jeffrey Snover. One moment in that interview has been stuck in my head the whole week is when Snover argues that …

The following piece was written months ago, right after the “We Are Developers World Conference” took place in Berlin. So far I have not been reached out to for providing feedback to the conference, and …

Thanks so so much to everybody who’s supported the app over the years!🎩🎉 Let’s do 21 more!

I have a few providers which initialize state, shove it in a context, and then ensure that the state is synchronized with AsyncStorage so that if the app is quit and restarted, the context’s state …

I never really thought I’d have a fast XC bike again, but, I was wrong. And I’m glad. And impressed at just how capable a “modern” XC race bike is. For almost three years I’ve …

Week #700 On Monday, we had our Friday PETALS meet-up. We went over each of the screens. The goal is to clean-up some of the text and design, use the data to focus the story …

I'm writing this on my new desktop computer. It's a Linux system I chose after deciding to migrate from ChromeOS back to Linux: a System76 Merkaat short case mini PC with a 5 GHz 13th …

Back in February, shortly after booking international flights for the end of July, I went to renew my British passport which was set to expire in May. Being a British citizen from birth, it wasn’t …

There are several nice options in NixOS for specifying scheduled backup jobs, including borgbackup, borgmatic and restic. But I’ve often used rsync in the past, and there is no such module for scheduled rsync jobs …

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 …

A comparison, for educational purposes. Use the right tool for the job. How often have you encountered that phrase when discussing software architecture? There's nothing wrong with the sentiment per se, but it's almost devoid …