Articles

Blog posts, journal articles, white papers, and talks. This is really just a collection of my favorite articles and talks. Some detail interesting projects, some discuss polarizing opinions, and some are super informative guides.

2026

Yap: a particular kind of slop by Kayla Washburn-Love (2026)
DIY professional grade solar panel installation by Joey Hess (2017)
Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool by Sumner Evans (2026)
Microlighter by Dave Rupert (2026)
How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode) by untrusem (2026)
Writing a Fast Compiler by Marc Kerbiquet (2024)
Static HTML Comments by Derek Sivers (2022)
My comment section is static HTML by jvalol (2026)
The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description by Raymond Chen (2026)
Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome by Guillaume Técher (2026)
Toggles Considered Harmful by Lukas Mathis (2026)
A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway. by Filip Roséen (2026)
Your harddrive is probably full by Viktor Löfgren (2026)
Don't Take the Black Pill by Andrew Kelley (2026)
Calm Technologies That Excite Me by Abhigyan Tripathi (2026)
A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD) by Andrew Kelley (2022)
Prefactoring: Clear the Way for Your New Feature by Google Testing Blog (2026)
Minimal Git CI using hooks by mccd (2026)
Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled by Christine Lemmer-Webber (2026)
SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions by Martin Dørum (2026)
How I use HTMX with Go by Alex Edwards (2026)
Hating AI in 2026 by Eamon Caddigan (2026)
How my images are dithered by Jo (2026)
The Proportional Web by Oskar Wickström (2026)
Running 1000 tests in 1s by Marvin Hagemeister (2022)
Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat by Ketan Joshi (2026)
If you’re a button, you have one job by Marcin Wichary (2026)
.gitignore Isn’t the Only Way To Ignore Files in Git by Nelson Figueroa (2026)
What can wonky APIs tell us about the web? by Alex Chan (2026)
What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000 by movq (2026)
write for 1 person by Julia Evans (2020)
Every Frame Perfect by Nikita Prokopov (2026)
I wish Deno would keep doing what it does best by 洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) (2026)
Quality in the Age of Slop by Sinclair Target (2026)
The social contract of writing by Johanna Larsson (2026)
It's time to talk about my writerdeck by Veronica Explains (2026)
On the <dl> by Ben Myers (2021)
Don't Roll Your Own... by Susam Pal (2026)
Just Fucking Use Go by Blain Smith (2026)
Do I belong in tech anymore? by Ky Decker (2026)
Deleteduser.com —a $15 PII Magnet by Mike Sheward (2026)
The Missing GitHub Status Page by mrshu (2022)
If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems by Andrew Murphy (2026)
Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026? by Spencer Mortensen (2026)
When All You Can Do is All or Nothing, Do Nothing by Harry Roberts (2026)
Native Instant Space Switching on MacOS by Arhan Chaudhary (2026)
I'm OK being left behind, thanks! by Terence Eden (2026)
This Is Not The Computer For You by Sam Henri Gold (2026)
Hold on to your Hardware by マリウス (2026)
Why I don't think AGI is imminent by Denis Lantsman (2026)
Don't Get Distracted by Caleb Hearth (2017)
My AI Adoption Journey by Mitchell Hashimoto (2026)
Colorblind-Friendly Design Guide for Developing Apps by Terryc21 (2025)
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by Ploum (2026)
Getting Started with Voice Driven Development by Emily Shea (2019)
Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail by Lalit Maganti (2026)
Allocation is not Initialization by Jose Colon Rodriguez (2024)
The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality by Daniil Bastrich (2026)
What To Use Instead of PGP by Soatok (2024)
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons by Nikita Prokopov (2026)
Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole by Royal Bhati (2025)