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The United States and Iran are at war.

Until recently, I've mostly avoided writing Python for both personal and professional work, because the dependency story has been so bad.

A man sprayed US Representative Ilhan Omar with a then-unknown substance (since identified as vinegar) as she gave remarks at a Minneapolis town hall meeting on January 27.

Yesterday, Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in South Minneapolis, a few miles from where I live.

6 prosecturors in the U.S Attorney's Office for Minnesota resigned in response to pressure to investigate the widow of Renee Good.

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell.

A U.S Immigration and Customs agent shot and killed an unarmed woman in her car on Portland Avenue in Minneapolis, a couple of miles from where I live.

This is my prediction: non-developer end-users are not going to use AI to generate source code to build their own software products.

Sometimes the conversation in around static vs. dynamic types veers off into theoretical la-la-land.

Recently, I've been working on a BitTorrent client called etorrent.

Languages are too low-level.

On my Mac, Observer does not work out of the box with Erlang/OTP 28, but I got it working.

Uncertain - Mattt "When you compare two Uncertain values, you don't get a definitive true or false.

I'm tired of hearing people use "tech debt" as a catch-all term for bad code.

Fleeing One Step Ahead of Fascism "Leo Szilard: How quickly things move you can see from this: I took a train from Berlin to Vienna on a certain date, close to the first of April, 1933.

The Devil comes to you and offers you a deal.

Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska

The other day I was building an Elixir app that needed to store local data, so I thought I'd use the XDG spec.

Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens "We have witnessed high-cost, low-quality JS-stack rewrites of otherwise functional HTML-first sites ambush businesses with reduced revenue and higher costs for a decade.

Recently, I wrote a small Elixir library called Cas that provides a way to update shared mutable state concurrently.

The role of the University is to resist AI "'I speak about radical monopoly when one industrial production process exercises an exclusive control over the satisfaction of a pressing need, and excludes nonindustrial activities from competition.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is now law.

Authorities captured Vance Boelter, who killed Minnesota House Democratic Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounded Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife.

Minnesota House Democratic Leader Melissa Hortman was assassinated.

Israel attacked Iran with fighter jets, killing senior military leadership, nuclear scientists, and destroying nuclear sites.

This is a bit of a catch up post, since my last one was in 2021.

In the past few weeks I've used a multitool to: unclog a bottle of face soap (awl/reamer) cut packing tape off a clothes drying rack that was leftover from our move (knife) file down a sharp toenail (file) repair a hose by installing a new nozzle (Phillip…

I read Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 10 years in the industry recently and thought I would do my own.

I've been working on a little project lately called HTTPipe (or, httpipe, as I will refer to it), which is an implementation of (as far as I can tell) Anders Pitman's original patchbay. httpipe is a little HTTP server that allows you to share data between…

SQLite has some surprising behavior regarding transactions that bites almost everyone who attempts to use SQLite with multiple concurrent connections. the problem If a connection is in an active write transaction, any other connection attempting to upgrade

For a large portion of the software out there in the world, dynamic types are actually too powerful.

This post is another entry in the long and storied history of people misunderstanding and torturing Richard Gabriel's famous software design essay, The Rise of "Worse is Better".

When a language is "unsafe" what we really mean is that the language is imprecise in a specific way.

gron is a popular tool for viewing the structure of large JSON documents.

As the years go on and more people use Rust, we're seeing more and more of these "Rust was a bad choice and here's what I don't like about it" posts, like this one.

In Elixir and Erlang, a GenServer is a way of defining a process that has a specific behavior, namely, it behaves as a server with typical "server and client" semantics.

Here are a few benchmarks comparing Elixir's Jason with the new :json module, which will ship in the standard library with Erlang 27.0.

The cost society pays because of bad software is titanic.

Untold stories of football's Air Raid revolution "How come they get to pretend they are soldiers?"

Not everyone who disagrees with you is a closet right-winger "However, I have also become more estranged from what you might call the progressive political class over the past several years.

The Stations of the Meritocrat Cross "More, though, I just worry for these kids and for our future with them.

When invoking elixir on the command line, you can pass the -e/--eval flag multiple times.

When I was first learning programming - not counting TI BASIC when I was 13 - the more experienced developers I was learning from stressed the importance of good names for things like variables, methods, classes, and modules.

(Note that in this post I use "Elixir" to refer to Elixir, Erlang, and OTP altogether.

A few years ago I wrote a library that provides a circular buffer (also known as a ring buffer) in Elixir.

I just read this post and its HN thread.

Say you want to diff two CSV files, like these: $ cat 1.csv id,name,fav_color 1,bill,blue 2,sue,red 3,abe,green $ cat 2.csv id,name,fav_color 1,bill,blue 2,sue,red 4,ali,orange How do you do it?

(Note: see the bottom of this post for the code and example data) I wrote a small SQL script using SQLite that is capable of comparing a collection of JSON objects and rendering their differences as a SQL result set.

I didn't learn AWK (or, awk) until recently.

Ruby is a landmark in my programming languages journey because it is the first language I knew worth a damn.