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Someone recently volunteered to take a stab at package management in Carp.

The notes for this blog post have been sitting in my drafts folder for half a year now.

In 1966, Mark Kac published a paper in the American Mathematical Monthly called “Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?”.

In 1988, Umberto Eco published Foucault’s Pendulum.

2027: my coworker asks me why i won’t wear the headset. i briefly consider giving some sort of excuse, but i just sigh and say i’m afraid of the training…

Welcome back to another round of Simple Sudoku Solvers!

Alonzo Church published The Calculi of Lambda-Conversion in 1941.

Last night I was on a walk, listening to an episode of the Latent Space podcast with Eiso Kant of Poolside AI.

Welcome back to another round of Simple Sudoku Solvers!

I just hit a few weird milestones over the span of three weeks, and I’ve been trying to figure out how I feel about them.

Welcome back to another round of Simple Sudoku Solvers!

I was listening to Flat Duo Jets today and remembered all the testimonials from musicians about the frontman Dexter Romweber’s special musicality.

I remember reading “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” on a hot summer vacation in Palermo.

I’ve been making generative art on and off since 2016.

Welcome back to another round of Simple Sudoku Solvers!

As organizations scale, some of them realize they need an on-call structure.

About six years ago, during the early days of lockdown, I wrote a configuration language in one evening.

Anthropic recently made headlines when they asked Claude to write a C compiler for them, and it did.

Sudoku’s back, baby, and it brought a personal friend.

Turtle ran his flippers through the water.

I’ve been reading about renormalization lately.

In my life as a programmer, I’ve always had a side project.

Today I get to do something that’s exceedingly fun for me: “well, actually” my old self.

I don’t know about you, but lately I’ve been sensing a lot of anxiety about how AI is going to replace us.

Welcome to the first post of the second season of Simple Sudoku Solvers!

A few weeks back, I asked on the Recurse Center chat whether people would be interested to learn about my financials.

Fair warning: this is about as broad as the range of my posts, so expect a wild flow of ideas across various domains.

This is my two-hundredth blog post. 9 years running, though the early dates have been lost to time and bugs (my RSS feed insists that we started…

A few months ago, I built my first PostgreSQL extension, pg_ddate.

As many of you know I recently concluded a six-part series on Sudoku solvers in which we implemented Sudoku solvers in six different programming…

I’ve never experienced a company with a completely healthy performance review culture.

In this tenth installment of my series on Scheme macros, we will be looking at some meta macros—macros that make the act of writing macros easier and…

nI look at a lot of architecture diagrams.

In a recent blog post, I unveiled cj, a small, dependency-free JIT compiler framework in C.

“Hey, Koala”, Turtle said, quietly, to the fur ball on his back.

Welcome to our sixth and latest installment of Six Simple Sudoku Solvers!

7 years ago, I had an idea for a JIT compiler in C for x86 architectures with a completely auotgenerated backend based on machine-readable information on…

Both giving and receiving feedback well are hard skills to learn in business and life.

You know what time it is: puzzlin’ time!

It is time for Sudoku, once more (we are more than half-way through)!

I’ve seen 1:1s (read: one-on-ones, short meetings between a manager and their direct report) in various capacities over the years—I’ve been the report…

During a recent coffee chat, I was talking about a little learning project that I built for myself and my conversation partner asked “Is it online…

I like good post-mortems.

I’m trying an experiment: open coffee chats with one slot per weekday at 9am Midwestern time (16:00 CEST).

Welcome back to another Sudoku puzzling sesh!

My last few posts on SSDLCs, SBOMs, and Threat Modeling showed a clear personal bias that I’m aware of but have never really spoken much about publicly: I…

Hello, friend!

It’s been six and a half years since my last installment in my series on Scheme macros, and I thought it was high time for another one.

Threat modeling is weird.

A few weeks ago, I saw a random post on LinkedIn in which someone showed off a simple Sudoku solver written in C++, and I realized that I’ve never…