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You can make good websites without being a CSS expert, writing a ton of code, or using a massive framework.

In 2026, I am going to learn basic ASL.

Intro This May, inspired by Molly White's "Web3 is Going Just Great" [1], I made a channel called #📵-ai-is-going-great in the Discord server I run for my friends, with the tagline "more AI bullshit to gripe about?

An audio-visual exploration of Befunge.

12-Hour Time is Confusing When we teach children to read clocks and tell time, they're often confused by the strange combination of rules we follow.

What is Derive?

I spoke to a seminar about WebAssembly, the Component Model, and why it's a very promising ecosystem!

I announced, presented, and demonstrated the Claw programming language and talked about why we might consider making our toolchains component-native!

I presented on the state of WebAssembly (Wasm) component model tooling in various languages, explained how componentization works, and gave a demo of polyglot composition!

I presented on the topic of Package Transparency which incorporates ideas from Certificate Transparency into package management and talked about the Warg protocol which is an implementation of those ideas.

WebAssembly (Wasm) components are a compact, portable, and secure unit of code.

Currently, the Confidential Computing community is focused on use cases with very high security requirements, like the government and military, where applications must be protected from the Cloud Service Provider or the host machine in general.

We introduced the new (at the time) SIG-Registries group in the Bytecode Alliance (now renamed and re-scoped to SIG-Packaging) and talked about the work that's been going on there!

Developer tooling has grown by leaps and bounds.