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75 from 14 Jul 2014 to 24 Oct 2026
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2026 7

  1. introducing libzmx
  2. status-4
  3. what the double-fork?
  4. posix shell is all you need
  5. zmx - ai portal
  6. thinking slow, writing fast
  7. status-3

2025 6

  1. zmx - session persistence for terminal processes
  2. smol contract
  3. you might not need tmux
  4. migrating to neovim's new built-in plugin manager
  5. status-2
  6. status-1

2024 8

  1. on writing
  2. Why structured concurrency?
  3. conscioussness is wet
  4. homelab
  5. zig devlog ep1
  6. crickets
  7. on the xz backdoor
  8. Floating

2023 12

  1. front-end complexity is all in your head
  2. what is starfx?
  3. Who will understand consciousness?
  4. Bower's law
  5. On plugin systems
  6. In love with a ghost
  7. openSUSE microOS for container-driven development
  8. neovimcraft.com configs search launch
  9. We don't need human linters
  10. The dogma of restful apis
  11. conventional wisdom as an anti-pattern
  12. we are all savages

2022 19

  1. what is the smol web?
  2. what is consciousness?
  3. React is bad because it's great
  4. What is creativity?
  5. Using a debugger
  6. A priori is a myth
  7. Typescript is terrible for library developers
  8. On will to action
  9. Cast iron leet
  10. internet points
  11. On github as a social network
  12. reply -- the balance has shifted away from SPAs
  13. the new and upgraded framework laptop
  14. sunsetting listifi.app
  15. Redux-saga style-guide
  16. lists.sh initial launch
  17. The duality of software production
  18. On decoupled loaders
  19. nvim.sh

2021 17

  1. framework vs mbp
  2. On autoloading
  3. Wrmhole status update, September 2021
  4. Neovimcraft status update, August 2021
  5. A critique on project management software
  6. My experience with svelte-kit
  7. Dynamic open graph images
  8. Refactoring listifi to use saga-query
  9. saga-query initial release
  10. Entity factories
  11. listifi.app codebase now public
  12. My love letter to front-end web development
  13. What is a selector?
  14. Customer interviews killed my product idea
  15. Listifi launch
  16. Listifi tech stack
  17. Docker in production -- running out of disk space

2020 2

  1. Recreating redux-toolkit's createSlice
  2. Death by a thousand existential checks

2019 2

  1. 3 Rules for Refactoring Functions
  2. Simplify testing async I/O in javascript

2018 1

  1. Scaling a react/redux codebase for multiple platforms

2014 1

  1. Heideggar's Brilliance