Chris Dickinson

you have to know what to wish for Last month, someone high up at $dayjob said that we should treat any line of code written by hand as a failure.

testing your patience Welcome back to the last blog at the end of software engineering.

Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm, lays out a compelling explanation for the economics of programming languages: what work goes into creating a new language and ecosystem?

Understanding Wasm Part 3: You Are Here (This is part 3 of a series.

Understanding WASM Part 3: A Virtual System (This is part 3 of a series.

A little 1960’s Italian pop music to kick off the weekend.

Understanding Wasm Part 2: Whence Wasm “Write once, run anywhere” is a great sales pitch.

understanding wasm part 2: whence wasm “Write once, run anywhere” is a great sales pitch.

Louie Zong is a heckin’ treasure.

This is really quite similar to my neovim notetaking setup, with a bit more structure.

Understanding Wasm Part 1: Virtualization So, this all started when I tried to answer a colleague’s question about “what makes WebAssembly (Wasm) different from the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)?”

This post talks about the importance of schlepping through the details of the tools you’re working with.

A long read, but a good read.

I am an ABSOLUTE SUCKER for any song about it being hard to get out of a town that folks stay in.

What a big, warm, sad sound.

Got this from one action button video or another.

“Raw and powerful”, unrequited love, alliteration.

Man.

I didn’t come by this track honestly!

“On new year’s eve, I met a girl / she scared all my friends and then she showed me a whole new world” Love this track just for that line.

This used to be my go-to “I am entirely burnt out and I give up” song.

This was originally posted on my Cohost account; I’ve reposted it here for posterity.

Why should you read 1984’s “The UNIX Programming Environment” thirty-eight years after it was first published?

Wow, this is great.

Another super-useful tool from Kevin’s menagerie of good Rust links.

It’s great to see Rust adoption at game studios.

What a presentation!

This is one of the most useful talks I’ve seen.

This is pretty rad.

Great talk; I especially enjoyed his “three axes” approach to describing changes to programs.

Fascinating stuff.

One of the best explainers on the state of WASI/WIT/WASM components I’ve seen.

Color Studies TKTK After the last post, I want to back away from tech for a bit, so I’m writing about color palettes today.

The Canvas Cares Not Computers don’t care how programs are structured.

Using ProxyCommand to SSH to Cloud Managed Servers Problem Statement Given: You have a series of server instances: something like an AWS Autoscaling Group (or “ASG”).

My Notetaking Setup A quick update today because this tweet reminded me that I wanted to talk briefly about my notetaking setup.

The Case For Bash esac Friends, coders, I come not to praise bash, but to contextualize it.

I’ve heard it said that coding, as a skill, rewards those who have a high tolerance for remembering lots of trivia.

Deploying at Eaze Late January 2020 was a bummer.

July is over.

Vacation is over!

Career Progression A few days ago, I was promoted to Principal Engineer at $dayjob.

I’m coming up on a chunk of vacation, and I’d like to work on a technical project during that time.

Right now I’m writing templating middleware for Boltzmann (a JS framework.)

This talk is a gold mine: Impress your friends by casually using “afferent” and “efferent” in conversation Don’t miss “Reach for the banana, get the gorilla”, which might be my new favorite turn of phrase.

I’m building a new blog.

This was originally posted on my Medium account; I’ve reposted it here for posterity.