Tim Severien - posts

The other day, I was writing an RFC 4180-compliant CSV parser for fun.

Artificial intelligence (AI) sparks a lot of discussion and strong feelings in my circles, creating two vocal camps.

Who hasn’t accidentally deployed code that depended on a secret or environment variable that wasn’t configured for that environment?

Content warning: dead pet, grief.

This year felt like one where time stood still.

The Great Divide is one of the most iconic web development blog posts.

A couple of months ago, I was laid off.

I parsed RSS and Atom feeds in various recent projects, and I keep running into the same issue: the absence of categories.

Just before I started working again during my burnout, I thought stoicism could help me process my thoughts and feelings better, so I asked How to Be Free for my birthday.

Sometimes, adding something to a codebase is routine.

Do you smell that?

Yesterday, Chris Coyier shared his system to consume newsletters in his blog post: How To Newsletters.

A tweet from Next.js author Guillermo Rauch sparked uproar on social media, filling my Mastodon timeline quickly with subtweets subtoots.

I just read Chris Coyier’s You Like It Because You Know It, in which he shares some thoughts about TypeScript and wonders whether it’s worth it.

2022 is almost over and that’s a great time to reflect!

After over 12 years being more or less active on Twitter, I logged out everywhere and deleted the app.

Last ~2.5 years were wild.

If you work with them, you undoubtedly heard a software engineer complain about project management methodology.

Last weekend I found myself lying in bed scrolling my highly filtered Twitter timeline.