Posts

2025

Automatic Theme Switching in Emacs February 24, 2025

2024

Patching Instead of Pinning January 6, 2024
Archiving in Org Mode January 4, 2024

2023

Pinning GnuPG with nixpkgs December 31, 2023

2013

Why the world needs Haskell July 9, 2013
Parsing with Haskell and Attoparsec June 26, 2013
Learn to read and write Scheme expressions April 29, 2013
Picking your first programming language March 24, 2013
JavaScript as a virtual machine? January 3, 2013

2012

Unix cheat sheets September 17, 2012
Being explicit with your code April 17, 2012
RubyGem Version Specifiers April 3, 2012
Ruby/Rails Compatibility Matrix March 14, 2012
Ruby's catch/throw, goto's little brother March 9, 2012
Fun stuff for Friday Feb. 24 February 24, 2012
Fun stuff for Friday Feb. 10 February 10, 2012
Using Haskell to improve your C++ February 6, 2012
Rails 4.0 will drop support for Ruby 1.8.7 February 2, 2012
Why estimating is hard January 31, 2012
Fixing programming by besting current languages January 26, 2012
I took some programming in school != programmer January 24, 2012
2012 seems to be the year for learning to code January 2, 2012

2011

Hashing algorithm vulnerable to denial of service December 29, 2011
Java is dead, long live Java December 21, 2011
Fun stuff for Friday Dec. 16 December 16, 2011
PostgreSQL as a key-value store December 13, 2011
Improving your skills by reading commits December 7, 2011
VendorKit: bundler for Objective-C December 5, 2011
Fun stuff for Friday Dec. 2 December 2, 2011
Seven databases in seven weeks December 1, 2011
HAML users repent before it's too late December 1, 2011
Don't be affraid to learn vi or emacs November 23, 2011
Git workflows and configuration November 22, 2011
Simple code makes good software November 21, 2011
Fun stuff for Friday Nov. 18 November 18, 2011
Concurrency in Ruby 1.9 November 17, 2011
The Objective-C object model November 16, 2011
C++11 move semantics and rvalue references November 15, 2011
Remote pair programming in a terminal November 14, 2011
Fun stuff for Friday Nov. 11 November 11, 2011
Those Objective-C "@" Directives November 10, 2011
The basics of good programming style November 9, 2011
A closer look at Redis November 8, 2011
Managing debt buildup while developing November 7, 2011
The longevity of OS APIs vs. web APIs November 4, 2011
Self-guided Ruby on Rails 3.1 Tutorial November 4, 2011
Fun stuff for Friday Nov. 4 November 4, 2011
Global Day of Coderetreat November 3, 2011
Learning the fundamentals of Scala November 2, 2011
Giving JavaScript another chance November 1, 2011
More on code coverage metrics October 31, 2011
Fun stuff for Friday October 28, 2011
Garbage collection/reference counting in C++11 October 27, 2011
Don't do your own date/time calculations October 26, 2011
Keep learning and make mistakes October 24, 2011
Fun stuff for Friday October 21, 2011
Write HTML/XML faster with Zen Coding October 20, 2011
Using regular expressions in C++11 October 20, 2011
Still looking for a language to learn this year? October 19, 2011
Sharing your private Git repositories October 18, 2011
Challenge your text editor fu October 17, 2011
Reactions to Dart, 17k line Hello World October 14, 2011
Programming tips from a photographer October 13, 2011
Subversion 1.7 released, goodbye .svn pollution October 12, 2011
Google's language for people who hate JavaScript October 11, 2011
C++11 is officially released, goodbye C++0x October 11, 2011
Unix toolbox: sed and awk October 10, 2011
NewtonScript and other prototype-based languages October 7, 2011
Ruby Core Team: Dude, Ruby 1.8 is dead, really October 6, 2011
Playing with Google Go October 6, 2011
Don't write CPU intensive code in JS, duh October 4, 2011
The path to being a better developer October 3, 2011
The diminishing returns of testing October 3, 2011
Replacing master with another Git branch September 30, 2011
Google releases JS Test September 29, 2011

2008

Understanding Ruby Singleton Classes September 15, 2008
Behind the code: project planning July 24, 2008