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2025 (4 posts)

Apr 20 Fast concordances in Go
Mar 20 The textual history of the Christian Bible
Jan 27 Trial by jury
Jan 3 I'm teaching a systems programming class this spring

2024 (12 posts)

Dec 8 Why didn't the cron job succeed?
Nov 24 Unix file permissions cheatsheet
Nov 24 Whether you can access a path depends on how you name it
★ Nov 20 What file permissions does mv need?
Nov 4 Be careful exporting from Postgres to SQLite
Oct 28 Is C simple?
Oct 21 Notes on Prometheus
Aug 29 Append-only programming
Aug 13 Linux process tricks
Jun 27 Polygrammarous: exploring linguistic diversity
Jun 14 Automated grammar checking: existing tools
May 30 Proposal: A type-checker for English prose

2022 (2 posts)

Feb 22 Building Khaganate
★ Feb 15 Khaganate: a suite of personal productivity software

2021 (4 posts)

Oct 24 isqlite: An improved Python interface to SQLite
Oct 9 Using SQLite effectively in Python
Sep 2 Why I am writing a new programming language
Mar 9 London, Paris, and Naberezhnyye Chelny: Analyzing results from my European cities quiz

2020 (8 posts)

Nov 10 What's the best-known city in America? ...and other stats from my U.S. cities game
Oct 6 Personal go links
Sep 14 The technology behind a web app with 200,000 monthly visits
Jul 24 Testing command-line applications
★ Jul 7 A subtle garbage collector bug
Jun 21 A tool to manage git pre-commit hooks
★ Jun 7 Type-safe generic data structures in C
★ May 11 Writing an interpreter and debugger for an assembly language