Vegard Stikbakke

A blog post I wrote for Earendil, where I'm currently working: How Compaction Works in Pi

A while ago I wrote a small file watcher in Go for my own use with an accompanying blog post.

I want to write more!

This site is now built using a static site builder that Claude Code wrote for me.

I read 16 books this year.

I finished 9 books this year, in total 2006 pages.

I wrote reload, my own file watcher!

This is a living document.

I read 11 books this year, in total 4488 pages.

I read 14 books this year, spanning 5878 pages.

I wrote a paid blog post for LWN.net on a freelance basis: What's coming in Go 1.18

I've worked full time as a software engineer for around two and a half years, since May 2019.

Below is a list of the 12 books I read this year, spanning 4244 pages (according to Goodreads).

Simon Willison and others (Josh Branchaud, David Winterbottom) have started posting their Today I Learned snippets, or TILs for short.

As part of my development workflow, I usually run some integration tests.

Below is a list of the 23 books I read this year (8151 pages).

Pipes are cool!

This fall, my colleague and I discovered a bug in the unittest module in Python.

This year I read 40 books, surpassing my goal of 30 (see my year in books on Goodreads).

I wrote an op-ed in DN, the biggest Norwegian financial daily newspaper about how entrance to Norwegian universities is broken and extremely expensive for the Norwegian state: https://www.dn.no/innlegg/utdannelse/samordna-opptak/medisin/forbedring-av-vitn…

I am starting to realize that the Unix command-line toolbox can fix absolutely any problem related to text wrangling.

As a kid I read a lot of books.

Today I learned that in Python 3, one can enforce the use of keyword arguments in functions!