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This blog post is very long and almost entirely about the 1974 bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M.

One of the cooler things you can do with Zig's comptime is create what Mitchell Hashimoto calls "tagged union subsets."

To get some experience using Zig, I thought it'd be fun to build a Markdown parser.

I don't have anything new to contribute to the big-picture war of words about the ethics of generative AI, or its environmental impact, or whether the software industry has reached an inflection point.

In any substantial software project, there are usually two categories of code.

Although overwhelmingly people use Git, other version control systems exist.

I realized recently that rather than using "the right tool for the job" I've been using the tool at the job and that's mostly determined the programming languages I know.

Iterators are a relatively new feature of Go, added to the language only last year.

Having to explain the rules to a board game is always a drag.

Bram Moolenaar, creator and long-time maintainer of the Vim text editor, died in 2023.

One might have expected that the terminal, a computer interface dating from an era before the desktop and the mouse and the graphical display, would by now be almost irrelevant.

What is the difference between /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/local/bin?

I first played Myst as a child.

Bash has been around for a long time.

The logging module in the Python standard library has an extremely flexible design.

One of my favorite books is a book called A Field Guide to American Houses.