Simon Hartcher's Writing

og-check fetches a URL and renders its OpenGraph and Twitter Card metadata directly in your terminal, images and all.

Trading per-message allocations for two flat buffers, and what that unlocks for serializing the index to disk.

Sandboxed containers that you can run on your own hardware.

After the deacon sent the dogs to sort out the polecats, I have thoughts.

Claude: "Oh I think I cut you off there.

A look back at my product, tool and game development projects from 2025, plus reflections on freelancing and personal growth.

Combining tools and skills with a custom name yields great results

A personal comparison of battery life between my MacBook M1 Pro and Framework 13

An analysis of optimal posting times on Hacker News based on Claude's insights into engagement patterns and user behavior

A Zig package that generates compile_flags.txt files to provide proper editor integration for C/C++ projects using build.zig, ensuring your IDE can find include paths and provide code intelligence.

Reverse engineering, game jams, challenges, learnings

Blazingly fast and hosted for free on the edge

UNRECORD is causing a stir on social media

A short and simple guide

A Modern Approach to Legacy Web Applications

Now with more ES6

A change of scenery and means

Trying out three XBMC distributions

A code review lesson on knowing your standard library

My journey through text editors and why Sublime Text won me over

Reflections on Scott Hanselman's productivity tips and the joy of programming

Stack Overflow DevDays is back and coming to Sydney