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On the subject of developer tooling, or perhaps computer programs more broadly, I have become increasingly convinced that vertical integration is the only thing that matters.

Previously: My iPhone Hates My WiFi.

Sometimes, my iPhone disconnects from my wifi.

A quick update on last year’s “Giving My Student Loan Servicer a $560 Interest-Free Loan”: they gave me my money back!

#Foreword: Missed calls Today I had a delivery scheduled for a piece of furniture, so I had my iPhone’s ringer on.

One of my pet peeves is when command-line tools look for user configuration files in ~/Library/Application Support when running on macOS.

AKA “The IORef trick”.

The git range-diff command compares two commit ranges.

#Introduction At work, I’m busy upgrading our compiler from GHC 9.6 to GHC 9.10.

TL;DR: I’ve built git-prole, an ergonomic git-worktree manager.

Our story begins on April 8th, 2024.

Note: This article was originally published on the Mercury engineering blog.

It’s popular (and good!)

This is intended to be a brief introduction to the Rust programming language for Haskell programmers who want to work on a Rust project without too much fanfare.

note: i don’t think i’m going to finish this one. issue with hard soap: it gets wet. that’s the big thing. you get it wet, and then it’s all soft and it rubs onto the soap dish. and the soap dish gets dirty as a result. one might imagine solving this by d…

A word of advice: don’t.

I’m trying to get an orchiectomy, or rather to decide if I want one.

I’m pretty competent with the Git command-line interface, and I use it for most things.

NixOS is well-known for being user-hostile, and installation is the worst.

If you were to log on to my personal Discord server and glance at the unhideable channel list side-panel, you would see one text channel, one voice channel, and nothing else.

I really like command line user interfaces.

Slack’s lackluster implementation of threading shapes the rest of its collaborative features, largely nullifying them.

rustconf 2020: “Rust for Non-Systems Programmers” (24 minutes)

Note: This letter was originally published in The Brandeis Hoot.

Note: This article was originally written for an undergraduate course on the Scheme textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP).

there are many rebecca turners. i am not these ones software engineer rebecca turner, aka iarna, currently employed by microsoft but perhaps best-known for her work at npm, where she was responsible for the npm cli, among other things british olympian reb…

Created by rebecca with major help from @FakeUnicode Unicode is a standard “registry” of characters designed to catalogue all the world’s writing systems and serve as a superset of all previously-existing character sets used and supported by just about ev…

Available as a terminal-friendly .txt!

A distance-estimating ray marcher From Syntopia: Classic raytracing shoots one (or more) rays per pixel and calculates where the rays intersect the geometry in the scene.