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2024

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