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Raphael

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37 from 20 Jul 2016 to 3 Feb 2026
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2026 1

  1. Fitting Some Files Through A Stdout-Shaped Hole

2025 3

  1. Checking Out CPython 3.14's remote debugging protocol
  2. Designing Code For Forward Progress
  3. Cowboy Debugging Python Memory Leaks

2024 6

  1. Differing Values In A Team Are Costly
  2. Named Arguments In Rust, If You Want Them
  3. DB Indexes Do Not Magically Compose
  4. Type Unions Don't Always Compose Well
  5. Trying To Understand Copilot's Type Spaghetti
  6. Property Testing Stateful Code in Rust

2023 7

  1. Finding And Debugging A Nushell Performance Issue
  2. Feature Flags In Depth
  3. Changing Node Version Requirements Should Not Bump Your Major Version
  4. It's All Just Debian
  5. How To Adopt Mypy On Bigger Projects
  6. Writing The World's Most Boring Quine
  7. Ideas For A Javascript Stricter Mode

2022 5

  1. Augmenting Existing Struct APIs with Rust Traits
  2. A Couple Lines To Improve Print-Based Debugging In Loops
  3. Writing Your Own Sudo
  4. Precision In Technical Discussions
  5. A Conjecture About Adversarial Wordle

2021 5

  1. Advice for myself on how to avoid verbose Rust code
  2. My Fractal Of Pain From Trying To Do TCP Sockets The First Time
  3. How Black Handles Comments When Python's Grammar Ignores Them
  4. The pedantic checklist for changing your data model in a web application
  5. Livereload, the simple tool that can carry you very far

2020 5

  1. Implementing Rust's dbg! in Python
  2. Trying To Make Pylint Faster
  3. How I Tried To Reduce Pylint Memory Usage
  4. A High-Level Gameplan To Start Playing With FPGAs
  5. My Recent Game Jam Experience

2018 1

  1. Can files co-exist with sandboxing?

2016 4

  1. The Two Minute Guide to Simple e-Books
  2. Being Careful Around ORMs
  3. Javascript Promises and Causality
  4. Supercharged Types