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2023-04-09

Now is a great time to become a programmer

The secret is that programming is a design discipline.
2023-04-02

Approaching LLMs, softly-softly

Ok, fine, I'll write about LLMs.
2023-03-13

I did an unusual thing

I took a lot of paternity leave.
2023-03-05

The Ghost of a Substack

No, be more indie than that.
2023-02-12

Never grift

#nevergrift
2023-02-05

A first post

A thousand first posts.
2022-09-16

Notes to a new tech lead

Leadership philosophy for my younger self.
2022-09-15

Making things is deep magick

You know what rocks? Making things.
2022-08-30

Your personal blog does not need analytics

At least make them privacy-preserving.
2022-08-22

It’s ok for people to leave

Or, a job is a business relationship.
2022-07-12

Default object parameters in TypeScript

Languages have features you can use.
2022-04-20

The what and why of git commits

What the commit changes, and why it changes it.
2021-02-15

Make Pandas transformations readable

Just include line breaks please.
2020-12-30

How to (not) remember shell commands

The tl;dr on tldr.
2020-12-30

Spend more time thinking about names

There are two hard things in computer science, etc.
2020-11-15

Commit only part of a file with `git add -p`

Also, review what you are committing.
2020-10-14

Consistent commit messages

Absolute pedantry.
2020-10-05

All the python environment setup you need (probably)

There will never be a definitive solution to python environments.