mmap Considered Harmful
So why do people keep using it?
On Steam Power
And why doomerism gets us nowhere.
On Power Tools
Using the history of woodworking as a metaphor for the present (and future?) of software development.
On Money and Morality
How the language of capitalism has trained us to think.
Copy Buttons
A good yak shave.
Link to Text Fragment Generator
I made a tool to generate links to specific text on other pages.
Let Relationships Be Boring
Why can’t we stop talking about nonmonogamy?
Symbols
And a little bit of fuzzy matching
Time Is Not Linear
Let’s stop treating it that way
Code is run by computers
…but it is read by humans
Caches Make Predictions About the Future
How a paper about CPU caches changed the way I think about software caches too
Graphviz support for Jekyll
I’m planning on writing about diffing soon, a problem space that is well-visualized by graphs. So this site needs to support graphs.
.onLazyHover
A less eager .onHover for SwiftUI
Believe The Big Lies
Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing.
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When your own code breaks you a decade later, at a different company
Accelerationism
Why auto-merge dependency updates without review?
Reviving a Clipper Creek HCS-40
Turns out contactors are a wear part?
Syntax highlighting stylesheets for Jekyll
A page that lets you preview some code highlighting themes that drop into Jekyll.
What is Modern Monetary Theory?
What gives fiat currencies value, and what can we do with them?
Travel Ukuleles
I go overboard making concert scale travel ukuleles
The Zero Gets a Corbin Saddle
Giving myself a little present now that I’ve been summoned back into the office.
Reviving a Yamaha PSS-A50
We got a Yamaha PSS-A50 for our kiddo. The next day it wouldn’t turn on.
Improved Tie-downs for the Motorcycle Lift
I got a set of CargoBuckles and modified them for motorcycle lift duty.
feedyour.email
When everyone’s got a newsletter, but you just want a feed.
defer for Objective-C
Reducing code duplication and improving locality in Objective-C with macros.
A Plywood Vinyl Media Center
The first reasonably intricate project I’ve done with the Shaper Origin
We Built Robots
gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there”
Teletypewriter as Art
Too loud to continue banging out tweets in an open office, the teletypewriter is given a second chance by an art student in Québec.
The Square Tweetwriter
The typewriter gets dusted off for hack week.
GSX-R fork internals swap
Suspension upgrades for your SV650
Danny’s Wager
Or: the problem with Pascal’s Wager.
New Blog
Pardon the cliché, but we’re starting over.