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2025

Contributing to Git
Ask hard questions
LLM Skepticism
Thoughts from recent conversations on LLMs
A tip on tracking down bound identifiers in Racket
I am not the first to notice GitHub's range-diff deficiency; I will not be the last
To learn Vim, practice smooth, iterative deepening
Performance still matters
RE: the Commit Crunch: StackOverflow blog hosts naked corporate interests alongside misinformation
Why I still prefer Vim
A grab-bag of Git links
Collected chats about Racket
Letter to the editor: Populism is not the answer to monopoly and fraud
Steps to reclaim digital control
Developer Experience, Redux
Nospend 2025
iMessage contact sync
2025 Goals
Commit subject case in Git history
Day one on a new team
Roundup of Mother Jones articles from the 2025 January issue

2024

Scraping XML sitemaps with Racket
Sapling Cage
Server-sent events with Racket
Little utilities
Tip: use symmetric differences with git-range-diff
Perspective on software development models
Copying a git-range-diff to GitHub
Performance of Racket Pict Comparison, Part 2
Churn and Weight
Developer Experience, Redux
The case against squashing to merge via GitHub
What everyone should know about git commit
Re: The Functional Programming Hiring Problem
Em-dashes are not spaced hyphens
Re: Beautiful Python Monsters
Extracting Ourselves from GitHub = Git
Performance of Racket Pict Comparison
A Strategy to Change Core Data Structures in Programs

2021

Solving Boggle
Learning is not (usually) time wasted
Feedburner burned
2021 Resolutions
The State of Dis-union

2020

Please *do* generate man-pages
Excel for Mac cannot simultaneously edit files with the same basename
Stop, sed i!
Making mass-edits to many repos via shell pipelines
Solving a logic puzzle the right way™
Programs invoked by Git have libexec/git-core on $PATH
Why I finally switched to zsh
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 5
Re: Coding the Impossible: Palindrome Detector with a Regular Expressions
CS Students Must Learn Computation Fundamentals
Getting Help Dos and Don'ts

2019

A terminal case of mysteries
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 4
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 3
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 2
Advent of Code 2019 : Day 1
Please do not post images of text
Re: Dumpster Diving through Dotfiles
6am Wake-up Call: Day 4/5
6am Wake-up Call: Day 3
6am Wake-up Call: Day 2
5am Wake-up Call: Day 1
Re: How Did Perl Lose Ground to Bash?
The Fields Extracter You Always Wanted
The Alignment Axes of Type Systems
I/O Funnels
Efficient Shell—Git Commit Statistics
Ruby, where are you (in GitHub workflows)?
Effective Study Habits
Comments, Subscriptions, and Feeds, Oh my!
Open-source Transparency
:tada: Announcing the release of plink! :tada:
Something is rotten in the state of Dotfiles
I am an ally
:tada: Announcing the release of tmplr! :tada:
Status Badges
:tada: Announcing the release of loner! :tada:

2018

Build-a-Octocat
Week 7—Code and Communication
Adventures with Python unittest
Life Lessons
Time Stops for No Mouse
Openings & Closings
Week 5 (and a Quick Recap)
Kaves and Kobolds
Day 16—The Three Pieces of Software
Day 15—Fresh Start
Bag of Holding (Everything)
Feature—Round and Round Again
Day 11—Third Time's (Not) Always the Charm
Day 01010—Everything Runs on Cycles
Feature—Flexibility and Engagement
Day match [0-9]—Regex
Day 8, Context and Computers
Day 7, Asking Questions
Week 2—Refactoring++
Feature—Taking a Break
Reading, Refactoring, and RPatterns
Day Four, My Two Cents
Day Three—Slacking
Second Day
First Day
Ready, Player Two ?

2017

Lady Book Dragon
Secrets from a Freshman—Survival Skills, Chapter 2
Survival Skills, University Edition
Quiver
Git Branch Cheat

2016

Eagle Project—Community Care Packages
Chrismtas Cutout Cookies
Site Inauguration
Skill Checks in D&D 5e
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Advice for College Students