Avery Pennarun

Happy July 4th! For those of us around the world contemplating independence, it's a good day to think about how we came to rely on expensiv...

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: While I'm suspicious of all JIT-compiled languages, C# has always had a much better IL than java, even since version 1.0, making it easy...

A few years ago I wrote [_The World in Which IPv6 was a Good Design_](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810). I'm still proud of that article, bu...

I made a little flow chart of mainstream programming languages and how programmers seem to move from one to another. There's a more common...

As a "fully remote work" company, we had to make some choices about the technologies we use to work together and stay in touch. We decided...

I set up my first wiki in 2001, in preparation for hiring our very first software developer employee. Until then, software development at N...

I just spent a few days of my Christmas vacation writing a new program, bup. bup is a program that backs things up. It's short for "backup...

In Farmington, CT, in fact, the town my cat was named after. Oh yes. That's how much we love that place. Lukasz, Ashok, and Matt will be...