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OK, it's been a couple of weeks since I published Rule 4: Code for Now, and I've had some interesting feedback!

Last week, we talked about centralizing behavior as part of the four rules of simple design series.

Last week, we talked about clarifying intent as part of the four rules of simple design series.

Last week, we talked about simplifying when the program works as part of the four rules of simple design series.

Last week, I introduced My Take on the Four Rules of Simple Design.

I've been thinking about how to write better tests recently, and I happened on Kent Beck's four rules for simple design.

From early June 2021 to December 2022, I've been working off and on on a tool called rbt (the Roc Build Tool.)

When I was optimizing elm-csv, I noticed that Elm's String.startsWith is implemented using JavaScript's indexOf method.

I like writing quick little scripts to avoid having to remember how to do things.

In the beginning of February, I spent a lot of time working on a new library for parsing CSV data in Elm.

In early 2021, I was working on a page at NoRedInk that let our curriculum team import big batches of updates to premade assignments for teachers to use.

the Elm Guide page on app Structure says: [Don't] Prefer shorter files.

I recently finished How to Take Smart Notes.

Just a short post to note that I've added a colophon to this site.

Some colleagues of mine at NoRedInk coined a new term: time-to-horse, the time it takes you to get on your horse and ride.

I previously wrote about tradeoffs of custom ID types in Elm, and promised to explore a few points in the space.

Another you-get-to-join-the-lucky-ten-thousand post here!

Have you ever noticed that no app binds a default keyboard shortcut to shift+control+option+command+whatever?

Part of my job as a team lead is dealing with a big list of work that my team is responsible for, but which we're not going to do immediately.

In Elm, we store data in records.

This has been well-documented elsewhere, but in the interests of helping someone else join the lucky ten thousand today: Bash, ZSH, and other shells will expand comma-sepated arguments surrounded by braces into positional arguments.

I was reading Wikipedia the other day (as you do) and found out about state-transition tables.

I keep using the term "clown computing" in conversations but I've never defined it.

When I'm navigating around a codebase I know, I prefer to use a fuzzy file finder instead of browsing a directory tree.

When you're setting up a Haskell project in Nix, most advice says "call cabal init and then cabal2nix . > default.nix to get a buildable Haskell project."

I sometimes find myself in a situation where I've cd'd several levels into a project and don't remember exactly where I am, but I want to get back to the project root for my next command.

In 2020, I got really interested in Datalog implementation after reading Pete Vilter's Codebase as Database: Turning the IDE Inside Out with Datalog.

I wrote a little script to create and fast-switch between different tmux sessions, and thought I'd share it real quick so others can use it too.

Note: as of December 2020, this site no longer uses custom fonts.

In January of 2020, I attended one of the last in-person batches of the Recurse Center in Brooklyn, New York.