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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…

Playing with GToolkit’s Lepiter Notebook and its support for Node.js cells One of the components of GToolkit is Lepiter, a knowledge base…

Introduction CircleCI recently announced an extension for Visual Studio Code, allowing you to view the status of your CircleCI pipelines. I…

These days most of my analysis - or even short scripts! - start in GToolkit. GToolkit’s paradigm of executable notebooks - with human…