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The Value in Go’s Simplicity
After using Go for a couple years, I’ve really come to appreciate its simplicity. I started writing Go at work a couple months ago, and have found it really easy to iterate on – much more so than Python and Java.
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Goodbye IFTTT
On switching off of IFTTT to self-hosted and on-device automation tools
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B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know (2021)
B-Trees are not boring, after all
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Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog
Writing a solver for “Miracle Sudoku” puzzles in Prolog.
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AI slop, suspicion, and writing back
On developing an involuntary reflex for spotting AI slop
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In Praise of Stacked PRs
Managing sets of small, dependent PRs enables faster review and increased developer velocity
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Python Idioms in Rust
I’ve been going through a period of programming language wanderlust over the past couple months. Recently, I’ve been quite interested in Rust. Coming from Python, I’ve found a lot of Rust’s language features to be quite powerful.
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Mental Model: Difficult Problems vs. Hard Work
How to model work that interacts with ambiguity
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Agentic Monitoring
Agents are structurally well suited to monitoring production systems.