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The term “software artifact” is often seen as being about only the runnable bits of a program: what’s the steps to getting ideas to bits…

Intro In a long standing blog patterns start to emerge. I’m interested in what I call ”Systems Level Programming“. By “Systems Level…

My Personal History with Early Blogging Tools: From Jan 15, 2002 until Feb 18, 2009 I kept a personal blog with Radio Userland. Radio…

DuckDB Explorations: Approaching data persistence in exploratory situations In software, I believe exploration and experimentation means a…

Leading Technical Change across the Herd. Software has evolved from a team activity to teams activity: multiple teams, each with their own…

Some Background: The Remarkable tablet The Remarkable is an e-ink powered device that leans into writing as an experience. I often refer to…

Intro In June 2023 I explored intermediate functional programming patterns in JavaScript. That article gave the following kinds of…

How to quickly iterate on your private Node libraries You’re fixing a bug and turns out the problem is in some private library of yours! You…

Intro A mid-2010s style MERN stack separates out backend and frontend concerns into separate deployable units (which we’ll call “projects…

Intro Functional programming means different things to different people. Personally I’ve come to the - somewhat incremental but somewhat not…