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I'm Ian. I blog about programming and sometimes about the geography quizzes I run on the side. If you enjoy my posts, please consider subscribing to my mailing list.

2022

• Building Khaganate
• Khaganate: a suite of personal productivity software

2021

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

2020

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