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I don’t know about you, but my personal projects often metastasize.

I wanted to make a web site, but I didn’t want to do the work.

Update 2025: “The haters said I couldn’t do it.

Unison is doing a lot of interesting things, and as I recently implemented an alternative runtime in rust, I have some insight into what’s going on under the hood 😉.

I’m excited to review Hypermerge, as it was developed by the folks from Ink & Switch who wrote the Local-First Software article.

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remoteStorage.js is a an offline-first solution that’s been around for quite some time, and stands out for having a formal protocol spec, first drafted in 2012.

Gun.js is an open-source project I’ve had my eye on for several years now, every once in a while checking back to see how it’s progressed, and whether the project I’m working on at the time is a good fit for it.

I’ve been wrestling with the issue of “data storage that syncs and works offline” for a number of years now, and have gotten 80% of the way on a few different implementations, but always ultimately get stymied by the little things, like “how do I make it…

This is the first in a series of posts digging into James Long’s talk CRDTs for Mortals, and the accompanying demo app he created.

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One of the things that keeps coming up as a pain point in Reason development is the boilerplate involved in parsing & generating JSON.

I just spent the past two weeks building a GUI Rust app to help you generate a 3-d model of terrain from around the world, that can then be used for 3-d printing, rendering, or whatever you like. 7 minute read

One thing that you’ll run into when interfacing with complex javascript objects in Reason, is that dealing with optional objects can be a huge pain.

I’m planning to do some fancy social science analysis of the results, but first I’ll just give you a dump of the summary data that came out of this.

I’m working on a new ReasonReact project that will need a stateful server, and I thought it might be nice to write that in Reason too :) but what’s the best way to deploy it?

I recently released a tool that will manage all of this stuff (see the accompanying blog post), but I figure it’s good to document what I went through for future ocaml cross-compilation spelunkers. 7 minute read

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I launched the first cross-platform mobile native game written in Reason a few weeks ago 🎉, to the Android and iOS app stores, with a free web version and a macos desktop bundle (source code all on github).

Lots of people have come into the discord channel asking about how to elegantly deal with async things.

After jumping into ReasonReact, I soon came to the question “How do I do higher-order components?”

Are you a big fan of React, and want to know more about Reason/OCaml?

Someone came into our discord channel a few days ago asking “Is Reason suitable for migrating a large production JavaScript codebase incrementally?”

A couple of people have shown up in the discord channel asking whether Reason has macros, and the answer is “sort of.”

I just wrote my first Reason project that compiled to native, and you can too!

So you’re all ready to write some Reason but you need to call a JavaScript function?

A couple of people have asked me how to get up and running recently, so I thought I’d put something together.

Last week, my coworker Charlie asked what it would take to automatically detect and purge unused aphrodite styles in our codebase.

I’ve expressed multiple times that I really want to get into clojurescript, but I keep running into barriers.

Reactive Programming is getting a lot of attention these days, and it promises to reduce frustration, bugs, and greenhouse gas emissions.

For the web-based everything notebook that I’m working on, I’ve been writing backend hookups to various programming REPLs, including IPython and Gorilla.

I recently switched from ghost to hexo, and the biggest thing missing for me was the editor interface.

My blog used to use Hyde, a python clone of the popular jekyll platform.

Go and Rust seem like natural competitors.

A while ago, I made a cellular automata simulator in Go, inspired by this video about a “rock, paper, scissors” simulation, where there are three “species” of cells which consume each other.

The perceptron is one of the most primitive learners, and is also of the easier ones to understand intuitively.

A few months ago I saw @scanlime’s “Zen Photon Garden” on hacker news, and was really impressed.