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It's not up to you
There’s a bit in Louis CK’s Live at the Comedy Store that I’ve been thinking about ever since I first saw it in 2015. It’s about someone saying they’re…
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Playful Programming
Last weekend I watched this video of Andreas Kling prototyping a JIT compiler for his Ladybird browser: It’s a very interesting video, for two reasons…
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Zig Zaggin'
Here’s a very interesting bit of Zig that I came across again this week: @fieldParentPtr. It’s a prism through which you can see a lot of Zig’s…
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Laying Siege to a Bug
I love debugging – clear goal, possibly interesting technical surprises, total freedom in approach, and coloring-in-the-lines creativity required…
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Notes From the Field: Learning Zig
This was my week off and I wanted to learn some more Zig. What I did: dug into the Zig compiler, wrote toy programs to replicate parts of it, tried to…
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One Week of Nothing to Do
All the things I could do
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Who removes rules?
Rules are an endless source of fascination and dread to me. How rules are created and why, how rules accumulate, how a set of rules shapes a system …
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Thoughts about software engineering I can't keep in my head. Too ephemeral for blog posts, too long for social media. It's the messages I'd sent if you'd asked me what's on my mind.

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