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2023-12-04: Profiling Rust programs the easy way
2023-11-27: Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
2023-11-19: Building a digital vigil for those we've lost
2023-11-13: Introducing Yet Another Rust Resource (or YARR!)
2023-11-06: Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature
2023-10-30: That time I wrote malware and got caught
2023-10-23: Unpacking some Rust ergonomics: getting a single Result from an iterator of them
2023-10-16: Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase
2023-10-09: A student asked how I keep us innovative. I don't.
2023-10-02: What would a web app canary look like?
2023-09-25: Making it fast shouldn't be the last step
2023-09-18: "Help, iterators made my Rust program slower!"
2023-09-11: A systematic approach to debugging
2023-09-04: OpenAI fixed their unsafe policy around names
2023-08-28: Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot
2023-08-21: The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose
2023-08-14: Writing a basic code formatter
2023-08-11: Fiction as a lens into technological change
2023-08-07: A few weird ways of displaying git hashes
2023-07-31: Throw away your first draft of your code
2023-07-24: Recovering from a lost disk: how I setup, backup, and restore dev machines
2023-07-17: Writing Hurl's grammar, twice
2023-07-10: Impact of remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain
2023-07-03: Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email)
2023-06-26: Write more "useless" software
2023-06-19: Introducing Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language
2023-06-12: Optimize sprint points to get nowhere fast
2023-06-05: Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences
2023-05-29: Email addresses are not primary user identities
2023-05-22: We deserve to know if something was generated by AI
2023-05-15: It's easier to code review Rust than Python
2023-05-10: Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship
2023-05-08: Your app doesn't need to know my gender
2023-05-01: You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap
2023-04-24: Rust allows redeclaring local variables to great benefit
2023-04-17: Scheduling visits from the muse
2023-04-10: Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept
2023-04-03: Coding with LLMs can lead to more and better software
2023-03-27: Different topologies for an org chart, wrong answers only
2023-03-20: Betraying vim for the IDEs of March
2023-03-14: Approximating pi using... a cake?
2023-03-06: Getting people to tell you you're wrong
2023-02-27: If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be?
2023-02-20: What's in my software engineering tool belt?
2023-02-13: A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting
2023-02-06: What's the difference between references and pointers in Rust?
2023-01-30: Does technology have a right to exist? (No.)
2023-01-23: Speeding up queries 1000x by sorting my bitmaps
2023-01-16: Why Rust's learning curve seems harsh, and ideas to reduce it
2023-01-09: Names should be cute, not descriptive
2023-01-02: A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision
2022-12-28: Reflecting on 2022, Looking Ahead to 2023
2022-12-19: return "reflections on a batch";
2022-12-16: Working with Rust in (neo)vim
2022-12-10: RC Week 12: What's Next, and Speedrunning Crafting Interpreters
2022-12-07: Building Molecule Reader in one day
2022-12-03: RC Week 11: Learning is best when multiplayer
2022-12-01: Tech systems amplify variety and that's a problem
2022-11-25: RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family
2022-11-22: Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust
2022-11-19: RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs
2022-11-16: I'm moving my projects off GitHub
2022-11-12: RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard
2022-11-08: Open source licenses as a reflection of values
2022-11-04: RC Week 7: Four habits to improve as a programmer
2022-11-04: Paper review: C-store
2022-10-29: RC Week 6: Halfway done, wrote a parser!
2022-10-28: My first impressions from a few weeks with Lean and Coq
2022-10-27: Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling
2022-10-21: RC Week 5: Wrapping up projects and starting a new one
2022-10-18: Alpha-beta pruning illustrated by the smothered mate
2022-10-14: RC Week 4: Gratitude and emotions
2022-10-11: Paper review: The Gamma Database Project
2022-10-08: RC Week 3: Returning to Math
2022-10-06: Starting my (overkill) homelab
2022-10-01: Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System
2022-09-30: RC Week 2: Pairing is Awesome
2022-09-28: Rounding in Python
2022-09-24: RC Week 1: Getting Unexpected Extrovert Energy
2022-09-11: I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!
2022-07-09: Running an Effective Book Club at Work
2021-07-03: Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
2021-02-01: Drawbacks of developing in containers
2021-01-11: Lessons from my first (very bad) on-call experience
2021-01-04: Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?
2020-12-22: Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work
2020-12-08: Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error
2020-10-14: What's "good" code and does it matter?
2020-07-26: Where is the source code for ping?
2020-05-15: Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
2020-04-29: Terminology matters: let's stop calling it a "sprint"
2019-02-27: Gmail's "Smart Compose" feature should be considered harmful
2018-12-31: Books I Read in 2018
2018-11-02: Kill the crunch time heroics
2018-10-26: Avoid multitasking to write better code
2018-09-14: Distractions Cause Bad Code
2018-09-07: Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them
2018-08-31: Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right
2018-08-23: Topologies of Remote Teams
2018-06-02: How I Work Remotely
2017-09-02: The bittersweet end of a year of independence
2017-08-07: On Estimates, Time, and Evidence
2017-07-30: PyOhio
2017-01-21: Growing Teams and Baking Bread
2016-11-12: Functional Programming and Big Data
2016-10-12: Security of the Infinity Ergodox on Mac OS
2016-09-26: Consider Part-Time Work
2016-08-21: Starting a New Chapter
2016-04-05: [Talk] Scaling Graphs
2016-03-15: [Review] "The Circle" by Dave Eggers
2016-03-07: Surveillance, Schools, and Our Children
2016-02-19: Fight Burnout, Go For a Run
2015-07-13: [Review] "Data and Goliath" by Bruce Schneier
2015-03-08: In Defense of the Midwest
2015-02-22: How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft
2015-02-22: The Beginning of Something

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