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2024

May

• Announcing git bisect-find

April

• Goodbye Plato

February

• My Favourite Feeds
• Running a Terraria Dedicated Server on NixOS
• AI Stole Our Jobs

2023

September

• How to Highlight Thousands Groups of Large Numers in Vim
• Ricochet Robots Solver

July

• Web Environment Integrity API
• Decentralized vs. Federated
• TypeScript Footgun — Unconstrained Generics
• Deploying Static Sites with statit

June

• A Decade of RSS Via Email
• Poster Printing with Inkscape
• Attempting to use bcachefs

May

• The Ethics of Locked Hardware
• Default to Less Than Quadratic

April

• You Are Still the Product
• Should Links Open in the Same Tab or a New One?

March

• Lying to TypeScript for Fun and Profit

January

• Use a Password Manager

2022

December

• Left-to-Right UX
• Nested Encoding Efficency
• Mirroring a Website with Wget
• Running a Valheim Dedicated Server on NixOS v2

November

• Decentralized Applications via the Web Push API

July

• Signed Email Addresses

June

• The Missing Call-Assign Operator
• Honeycomb.io Review
• My favourite small tools, scripts and aliases
• Working Around Bugs

May

• Wrong by Default
• Google WebSub is DoSing Me
• RSS Feed Best Practises

April

• Rust Can't Handle Some Lifetimes of Generic Closure Arguments
• Delinearized Rollouts
• Maybe Passwords are the Future
• Submitting Changes

March

• Multi-Version Rollouts
• Perfect Constant Vigilance
• My User Scripts
• Dictionary Compression

February

• Cloudflare's Weird Age Header.
• Escape Everything

January

• Remove Firefox Minimum Width
• Typed Config Languages
• Predictable UX
• Pinata Cleaning
• Ice Golf
• Nix Build Caching Inside Docker Containers
• Rocket Review

2021

December

• YouTube's Wonky WebSub
• Problems with Cloudflare Bot Blocking

November

• Announcing FeedMail

August

• You Don't Want Atomic Deploys
• My vision of Nixpkgs CI.
• Things I Hate #2 — Fake Links

July

• Proposal for Chrome and Content Modes in HTML
• It isn't my fault if you think this site is ugly.

June

• Respecting Your Users' Fonts
• The Legal Value of Time
• The Impossibility of Perfectly Caching HTTP Range Requests
• Firefox Proton Theme Tweaks

May

• Installing a New Workstation with NixOS

April

• I Miss Referer
• Announcing watchlog
• Matrix Proposals need to be Encryption-First
• My Ideal Service
• Per-User Rate Limiting

March

• Good Names
• My ZSH Prompt
• Accessing Query Window in Sumo Logic

February

• Backups with IPFS
• Running a Valheim Dedicated Server on NixOS
• Thoughts on Coil
• Uber Support Sucks, a Horror Story
• My Ideal Window Manager

January

• Tabs Were a Mistake

2020

December

• Pretty Good Extra Utilities Solar Generator Controller
• NixOS Config Switching

November

• Gridfinder Implementation
• Removing a Service Worker

October

• State of IPFS Websites

September

• IM Needs an Inbox
• Terraform Debug Printing
• Switching to NixOS on my Desktop
• Acronyms Considered Harmful

August

• How to Keep Your Master Branch Green with Git

July

• Multidimensional Service Configuration

April

• Protocol Buffers taken to their Simplest Form

March

• Inplace Encryption and Decryption

February

• Instagram Media Previews
• AIB Right of Data Access Request Process
• Extracting Part of a Repository with git filter-branch

2017

January

• Nix and Mesos Talk

2015

December

• Service management with Nix.
• Getting Started With NixOS
• NixOS, the managed system.
• Structured Logging with journald

2014

August

• Can we pick a CDN already?
• The Missing C++ Smart Pointer

June

• Responsive Tabs

April

• Javascript Prototypical Inheritance Done Right

2013

October

• Versioning for Dummies
• Language Specific Package Managers

August

• File Renaming Trick

June

• SSL Verification Only
• Using Email as an RSS Reader
• Why You Shouldn't be Concerned About Government Surveillance

April

• Things I Hate #1 — Submitting Forms on Keypress

March

• Dropping Google Calendar and Keeping CardDAV
• C Comment Fun

January

• Thoughts on Ubuntu