Micah's Secret Blog

This article is both an introduction to a tool I have been working on called jsongrep, as well as a technical explanation of the internal search engine it uses.

When Ken Thompson won the Turing Award jointly with Dennis Ritchie for their work in UNIX, he was expected like other Turing winners to write a paper that would be published in the ACM Computer Journal.

tmux is a beast of a tool that I found to be indispensable for my personal developer workflow, but there are a few things that I have added to my tmux configuration to enhance the out-of-the-box experience.

There's tons of little goodies you can add to your .gitconfig to make your life easier.

In a little over 100 lines of Rust code, we can build a simple shell program that can execute commands, supports piping, handles signals, and maintains command history.

I've ditched my traditional keyboard for a split keyboard.

With just a basic working knowledge of writing Bash scripts and understanding Unix tools and their design philosophy, you can easily create scripts to automate your workflow and improve your productivity.

As part of my design course requirements at Rice University, I will be creating a game in a group of 4 (and more!)

Over the summer, after finally getting around to learning Vim motions (see blog post #9), I quickly fell down the Neovim rabbithole and have been procrastinating work by tinkering away at my configurations ever since!

I love databases, but they are still largely a magical black box to me, so in this post, I'm going to explore how SQLite's query optimizer works.

The vimtutor program is the essential starting point for anyone looking to learn the basics of using Vim.

No doubt you've heard it before: "AI will make programmers obsolete" or "AI will take your job."

How do software packages work behind the scenes?

In the realm of computer science, efficiency is often the key to solving complex problems.

Hacked by an image?

Algorithms are all around us.

Nearly a year ago, I took an online course called The Missing Semester of Your CS Education.

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