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A while back I promised to write certain blog posts on request.

Weird glitch in the news matrix today.

Disclaimer This post is not intended as a criticism of Tobi.

I have a constant headache and I blame Claude For better and worse, I use a lot of AI these days, especially coding agents like Claude Code.

Solving Advent of Code in a different language each day I like weird programming languages, and Advent of Code is a good excuse to try some.

Dana.

The problem with environment variables TL;DR storing settings in application code (when prudent) is simpler and more reliable than storing settings in environment variables.

Okay But Why Look man, there's something baked into me that prevents sleep before 3 AM.

I’m the Only Person Who Wanted This, but It’s a Thing Now, I Guess Often when I'm writing HTML, I'll debate whether to write <img /> or <img> (among many other unimportant decisions) and think to myself, "no one will ever know or care if I'm consistent...…

The Modern Equivalent of Spellbooks I collect blog posts like Frieren collects grimoires.

Too Many Things to Write About Like most people with a website, I wish I wrote more.

Video Game Controllers Have Many Degrees of Freedom I love video games that utilize knowledge-based unlocks.

This is the second post in which I analyze data scraped from GitHub to learn more about developer communication.

This is the first of several of posts in which I analyze data scraped from GitHub to learn more about developer communication.

Ideas are Underrated The "idea guy" is often made fun of in game dev circles because ideas are much easier to think up than execute on.

Neural Game Emulation Close your eyes and imagine playing your favorite video game.

Variable Names Are a Big Deal Software engineers universally frown upon single-letter variable names.

The Object-Relational Dilemma One of the most difficult problems encountered in real-world object oriented development is the object relational impedance mismatch.

The Complexity Problem I've noticed that smart people like complex solutions.

Blazor considered harmful The allure of Blazor is strong.