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Glitching on the Sea
This week, we’re back the original idea behind this newsletter – a newsletter that’s informal and “what I’d send you if you were to ask me what’s on my…
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A Feat of Engineering
Whenever I talk with programmer friends about Apple I try to sneak the following story in. Usually I start with “did you know that Apple…?” and end by…
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From Vim to Zed
After around 20 years of using Vim, in December last year I switched to Zed as my main editor. Since some friends have asked me about the switch — “Now…
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March 2024

Noticing & Writing
I started writing this newsletter with the idea that “once a week I set myself a timer for 60min and what I write in that time gets published”. Sit…
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The Basics
Here’s what I consider to be the basics. I call them that not because they’re easy, but because they’re fundamental. The foundation on which your…
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A Few Words on Testing
Or: Losing Faith
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How to Lose Control of your Shell
An investigation.
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How I Use AI
Protocol of a little over two days of AI
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February 2024

Oh, to turn off your mind!
In admiration of some of the best programmers I've worked with
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From 1s to 4ms
So zero-cost abstractions exist?
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The Lightness of Unscheduled Calls
In my first week at Zed it took until the third day for someone to hop on a video call with me. The second video call happened in the week after that…
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Education of a Typing Man
When we were 16 years old my friend and I spray-painted our keyboards in camouflage colors. We had just seen Hackers, wanted to copy what we saw, and …
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