Jake Low's blog

This blog post is adapted from a talk I gave about Sourdough at the CUGOS Fall Fling on November 14, 2025.

I’m being haunted by XML.

This weekend I finished and released a small tool I’ve been wanting to write for a few months.

I spent the last twelve weeks at the Recurse Center: a self-directed educational retreat for programmers.

Swift’s Codable protocol helps you create structs that can be serialized to and from an external representation such as JSON.

I wrote a small tool called uu which can be used to examine streams of Unicode text.

Washington State’s Department of Natural Resources collects and publishes LiDAR data covering much of the state.

I’ve just released postcss-minify, a PostCSS plugin that reduces the size of CSS source files by removing comments and unnecessary whitespace.

Hobby’s algorithm is a technique for fitting a curve onto a sequence of points on the plane, such that it passes through all of the points in order.