The David Brownman Blog

Being able to recognize users on a social network is what turns a website into a community Read the whole thing.

Take my fun little survey about the state of the world in 2041.

The post you know and love, but published it its new home.

Some personal news that changes everything, forever (for the better).

Short reviews of 12 games when played with exactly 2 people.

The why and the how behind my latest site rewrite.

My journey to find the perfect all-purpose daily driver backpack.

Why yearly themes are better than resolutions, plus how mine went and what else I'm covering soon.

A pain-free way to write expressive, readable typed option bags in TypeScript.

david.reviews: Rust!

I don't back up my laptop; here's what I do instead.

My 9th annual roundup of my favorite things I played, watched, and read last year.

A quick recap of the holiday sketches I come back to, year after year.

A quick overview of what's on California's ballot in November 2024 Read the whole thing.

Tips and tricks to write a changelog worth reading.

Talking through why choosing a versioning scheme is of vital importance and why SemVer is the best option for most.

How I used jq and Rust to build a repo of my Exercism solutions that showed how they evolved over time Read the whole thing.

Copying a file to a folder is not always as simple as it seems.

Join David once again for a roundup of his favorite media of 2023.

I tried 12 different new (to me) programming languages during 2023 and I share my thoughts on the pros and cons of each.

My experience building a static site backed by an Airtable database, including some fairly complex TypeScript.

Building my perfect project management workflow with Linear and Python Read the whole thing.

Documenting my journey and tech stack selection for building a static site in 2023.

A complete, consolidated, spoiler-free, step-by-step guide to every puzzle in The Afterparty's second season.

My journey to create a universal test runner Read the whole thing.

A review of metrics and learnings from having my blog post hit the top of Hacker News.

I've written a tool for creating a searchable archive of all your Reddit data.

A tour of my Obsidian setup, describing in detail how I use Obsidian for custom technical documentation.

David's quick travel guide for a weekend in Boulder.

Join me once again for my annual media roundup, celebrating the best games, movies, shows, and books I experienced in 2022!

A brief discussion of verification methods on Mastodon (and their downsides).

A step-by-step guide for importing your Alfred snippets into Raycast with a little help from the command line.

A recounting of my experience job hunting in 2022 for a Software Engineering position.

My tips for building a large library of videogames extremely cheaply.

A walk through my favorite games, movies, shows, and books of 2021.

What if you were playing a billiards RPG, but your cue ball was you, an adorable warrior mouse armed with a variety of pointy objects?

Learn about Python's dataclass module and implement a working version from scratch!

A brief overview of how I work as an IC.

An exploration of my favorite 2020 escapism methods (aka the best things I read, watched, and played this year).

I have come to the sad realization that there is no perfect task app.

In all of my personal record keeping, I use a slightly unusual method of tracking the date.

A quick dive comparing relative effectiveness different compression speeds and formats.

Voting won't solve everything, but it certainly won't make anything worse.

A brief retelling of my quest to find the best ebook reader.

Take a peek at the best things I read, played, or watched in calendar 2019!

A look back at the best and brightest media of 2018 Read the whole thing.

In which a surge protector does not protect as much as is expected Read the whole thing.

The GOP claims to be the party of Lincoln Let's examine that claim.

Learn more about how I rank all of the media I track in a consistent manner Read the whole thing.

Read my personal ranking of all currently-released MCU Movies.