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2025
(5 posts)
May 22
A Vale plugin for proofreading English prose
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
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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
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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
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Jul 7
A subtle garbage collector bug
Jun 21
A tool to manage git pre-commit hooks
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Jun 7
Type-safe generic data structures in C
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May 11
Writing an interpreter and debugger for an assembly language