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2026 5
2025 5
2024 13
- Why can't you request changes from yourself on GitHub?
- The AI Non-Economy: A Rant
- Large Language Models Should Have to Obey Copyright
- Can C++ fix its biggest problem?
- There's Always Problems
- Asahi Linux Again
- What Bits Mean: Meta-Data and Static Typing
- Asking Nicely: Avoiding Passive and Aggressive Communication
- What Bits Mean: Binary Integers and Two's Complement
- Sorting Polymorphically in Many Languages
- A Review of Self-Help as a Genre, and Atomic Habits in Particular
- Minor News: Some Repos on GitHub
- Review: One Billion Americans, by Matthew Yglesias
2023 32
- Is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment Undemocratic?
- 2023 in Retrospective and 2024 in Prospective
- Rust Is Beyond Object-Oriented, Part 3: Inheritance
- Are You Sure? (Revised)
- Endianness, and why I don't like htons(3) and friends
- Operating Systems: What is the command line?
- Can computers think things?
- Verbal Tics
- My Dream C++ Additions
- In Defense of 'C/C++'
- C++ Papercuts
- New Link: Technical Only RSS
- The Curse of Coffee
- Walk-Through: Prefix Ranges in Rust, a Surprisingly Deep Dive
- Fiction Review: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
- Debt Ceiling, Redux
- There is No One True Best Programming Language (but some are still better than others)
- x86S: A Long Time Coming
- Voice is Hard
- A New Garden: Rust vs C++ mdbook
- Rust: A New Attempt at C++'s Main Goal
- Guest Collaboration: Paradigm Shift
- Rust Tidbits #1
- Treat Tolkien's World Like Other Mythologies
- The Importance of Logging
- Write Everything Down (Part 4): My Desktop Environment
- Rust Is Beyond Object-Oriented, Part 2: Polymorphism
- The Debt Ceiling Is Unconstitutional, and Biden Should Just Say So
- My Reaction to Dr. Stroustrup's Recent Memory Safety Comments
- Complexities of Defining ADHD
- Rust and Default Parameters
- Christmas Disappointment: Smashing Princes and Cities
2022 35
- A Life (and Blog) Theme for the Coming Year
- Rust Is Beyond Object-Oriented, Part 1: Intro and Encapsulation
- How to Write a JIRA Ticket in ... Relatively Few Steps
- First Impressions of Asahi Linux
- RAII: Compile-Time Memory Management in C++ and Rust
- Write Everything Down (Part 3): My Personal Organizational System
- Write Everything Down (Part 2): Failed Organizational Systems
- A Strong Typing Example
- Exploring Traits with Erased 'serde'
- Write Everything Down (Part 1)
- Blocking Sockets and Async
- Why Rust should only have provided `expect` for turning errors into panics, and not also provided `unwrap`
- Fiction Review: Plain Truth
- Another Confusing Haskell Error Message
- Command Line Interface UXes Need Love, Too
- Why I Won't Correct You're Grammar (unless you ask)
- Trivia About Rust Types: An (Authorized) Transcription of Jon Gjengset's Twitter Thread
- Function Overloading in Rust
- Reviews and Reactions: 2022 Short Story Hugo Nominees
- Netflix Should Become a Tech Company
- Can you have too many programming language features?
- A Checklist of Dev-Ops Disciplines
- God grant me patience... and I want it RIGHT NOW!
- Reviews and Reactions: 2021 Short Story Hugo Nominees
- Review: The Comic Book Story of Beer
- Can you reproduce it?
- A Rust Gem: The Rust Map API
- Biking to Philly
- Crank-'em Out
- The Good Ol' Days of QBasic Nibbles
- Warnings and Linter Errors: The Awkward Middle Children
- Haskell Error Messages: Come on!
- Burying the Lede
- Being Fair about Memory Safety and Performance
- In Defense of Async: Function Colors Are Rusty