Find enclosed some words that I have written.

2025

• March 5

  Woodworking videos

  Yet another software engineer analogizes craft.

2023

• April 9

  Now is a great time to become a programmer

  The secret is that programming is a design discipline.

• April 2

  Approaching LLMs, softly-softly

  Ok, fine, I'll write about LLMs.

• March 13

  I did an unusual thing

  I took a lot of paternity leave.

• March 5

  The Ghost of a Substack

  No, be more indie than that.

• February 12

  Never grift

  #nevergrift

• February 5

  A first post

  A thousand first posts.

2022

• September 16

  Notes to a new tech lead

  Leadership philosophy for my younger self.

• September 15

  Making things is deep magick

  You know what rocks? Making things.

• August 30

  Your personal blog does not need analytics

  At least make them privacy-preserving.

• August 22

  It’s ok for people to leave

  Or, a job is a business relationship.

• July 12

  Default object parameters in TypeScript

  Languages have features you can use.

• April 20

  The what and why of git commits

  What the commit changes, and why it changes it.

2021

• February 15

  Make Pandas transformations readable

  Just include line breaks please.

2020

• December 30

  How to (not) remember shell commands

  The tl;dr on tldr.

• December 30

  Spend more time thinking about names

  There are two hard things in computer science, etc.

• November 15

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

  Also, review what you are committing.

• October 14

  Consistent commit messages

  Absolute pedantry.

• October 5

  All the python environment setup you need (probably)

  There will never be a definitive solution to python environments.