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2026 2

  1. Introducing jjq, a local merge queue for jj
  2. My first contribution to the jj project

2025 3

  1. Classic 8×8-pixel B&W Mac patterns
  2. Let `jj absorb` help you keep a clean commit history
  3. Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor

2023 2

  1. The 10 Year Anniversary of the HealthCare.gov Rescue
  2. Oppenheimer

2018 1

  1. Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer

2017 1

  1. 2016, my year in review

2016 3

  1. Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7
  2. Modifying a Go slice in-place during iteration
  3. A simple way to limit the number of simultaneous clients of a Go net/http server

2015 3

  1. The Bloomingdale Trail
  2. Chicago wards & precincts shapefiles in 2015
  3. How to get started with the LLVM C API

2014 4

  1. T-shirt retirement
  2. quickserver
  3. Things of recent interest
  4. Fixing healthcare.gov

2013 4

  1. Helping healthcare.gov
  2. Lexing Oscar
  3. Announcing gogeos, a spatial data library for Go
  4. healthcare.gov and ACA marketplace sites from the perspective of a software engineer

2012 2

  1. Interview: Mike Migurski
  2. The Election Day Advent Calendar

2011 4

  1. Taking Go for a spin
  2. More Redis internals: Tracing a GET & SET
  3. Parsing and formatting date/time in Go
  4. Going to work for Democrats

2010 1

  1. I wrote an article about Redis

2008 1

  1. Redis: under the hood