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I “hand wrote” code the other day.

Today, I’m announcing the Project Mithridates Preview program to provide early access to my new video game, Project Mithridates.

My last post showed a complicated way to monkey patch Go functions on Darwin/arm64.

UPDATE: After publishing this, I found a much simpler way to do the same thing.

I once wrote a Perl subroutine that would memoize the subroutine that called it.

What would happen if the one engineer who really knows how it all works in your company were hit by a bus?

I love writing code.

Imagine a holiday dinner with the Internet Protocol family: IP is at the head of the table, TCP is to the right, and UDP is to the left.

I hope you had a chance to play the old Metroid games at least once.

I don’t think C++ is nearly as bad as some people would make you believe, but it has no shortage of ways to shoot yourself in the foot.

Hacker News had a lot to say about my article on securing a server.

The flower bed in the front of my house.

When I interview software developers, one of my go-to icebreakers is, “How did you get started in programming?”

Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month in 1974, describing the lessons he learned leading IBM’s OS/360 project during the 1960s.

Dear Timmy, As I shared at our last family meeting, current economic conditions have forced family leadership to make many difficult decisions.

I wrote a follow-up to this guide, which you should probably consider along with this article.

Technician: Welcome to Custom Lube, how can I help you?

I’m sure we’ve all been here, just staring at a list of numbers on the screen of your Apple //e, thinking “Man… I wish I knew the sum of those numbers.

I have a confession: I don’t think very much about memory when I’m programming.

It seems everyone has a story like this, but I’ll give you mine anyway.

I stumbled on this regex recently: \d{2}[,-.]

I once heard about a High School student who thought Europe was the capital of France.

Programmers tend to treat text encoding like the office bore.

This is a follow-up to an experiment on code structure.

Here’s a fun list to look through: Dumb Password Rules.

Let’s say you want some software built.

I recently wrote a Markov chain package which included a random text generator.

The first time I ever heard of a Markov chain was overhearing a conversation at work.