2026

• Feb 26 · Back It Off a Quarter Turn
• Feb 18 · Sorting Networks

2025

• Dec 08 · A Judgement Amplifier
• Dec 04 · Making the Cut
• Nov 30 · Prototype vs Implementation
• Nov 24 · Document-Driven Development
• Nov 20 · Defining Hypotheses
• Oct 03 · MVPs Reveal Preference
• Sep 20 · Cheap and Cheerful
• Sep 08 · Letters in LaTeX
• Sep 05 · Google Sheet Sort
• Sep 03 · Hot-Potato Package Delivery
• Aug 30 · Idempotent Home Directory Setup
• Aug 29 · The Dismal Science
• Aug 26 · A Two Card Strategy
• Aug 19 · Interviewing With AI
• Aug 18 · Scripting asciinema
• Aug 17 · Pipelines Without Pipes
• Aug 16 · Friedman, Pigou, Coase
• Aug 10 · How Fast Is Gas?
• Aug 08 · The More You Owe the More You're Worth
• Jul 30 · 2 Second Lean
• Jun 18 · My Best Losing Bet
• Jun 10 · AI and Individual Contributors
• Jun 10 · A Bike Shifting Heuristic
• Jun 09 · In Search of Ignorance
• Jun 05 · Build to Buy
• Jun 04 · A Pianist's Scales
• May 29 · Aider First Impressions
• May 28 · Training Data Shortages
• May 27 · Austin CTO Club
• May 26 · Necessity and Luxury
• May 23 · Which Way Will Models Go
• May 21 · Spontaneous Order, Lunchtime Edition
• May 20 · MCP and Firecracker
• May 19 · Does Art Make the Cut
• May 18 · Leavings of Many Deaths
• May 18 · Summary and Audience
• May 16 · Listening Is Underrated
• May 15 · Step CLI
• May 14 · Training Intuition
• May 13 · Evolutionary Reordering
• May 12 · Scaling and Standardization
• May 11 · Moats and AI Revisited
• May 01 · Linuxulator for the Win
• Apr 08 · Fragments for llm
• Apr 07 · Dual OS Single Boot
• Apr 03 · Solo Unicorn
• Mar 31 · Upside Potential
• Mar 26 · The Data Moat
• Mar 15 · Multiple Llamafiles With llm
• Mar 10 · More Moats and AI
• Mar 07 · Python CVS Woes
• Feb 15 · Moats and AI
• Jan 29 · Richard Epstein at Civitas
• Jan 19 · Meetup Attendees
• Jan 09 · Wrapping jq select
• Jan 05 · Jujutsu Improves on Git
• Jan 03 · Editing PDFs With qpdf
• Jan 01 · The New Programming

2024

• Dec 31 · Who Owns Your Dot Files
• Dec 30 · Bash the Cache
• Dec 24 · Debian JRE Package Bug
• Dec 21 · Linux Jails With VNET
• Dec 17 · mawk Is Not awk
• Dec 14 · Cognitive Load
• Dec 13 · fzf Plus rg
• Dec 12 · Locale for Sorting
• Dec 10 · Bhyve and Grub
• Dec 07 · Poll0
• Dec 05 · Kakoune Filetype Mode
• Dec 01 · Shell Help
• Nov 26 · An Amusing Shell Trick
• Nov 25 · Area vs Project
• Nov 24 · Apache AGE
• Nov 23 · Kakoune Client Server
• Nov 22 · Lean Coffee Is Underused
• Nov 21 · Dev in a Jail
• Nov 20 · TIL vs TIW
• Nov 19 · Search Path and Extensions
• Nov 18 · Man Page in Plain Text
• Nov 17 · OCR via LLM
• Nov 15 · A Useful Shell Pattern
• Nov 14 · Split for Embedding
• Nov 13 · Checking Make Vars
• Nov 12 · Sqitch Templates
• Nov 11 · Variables in Sqitch
• Nov 10 · PostgreSQL Types by Reference
• Nov 09 · Exit Codes in psql
• Nov 08 · Second Brain
• Nov 07 · Separating Storage From llm Embeddings
• Nov 06 · Programming Throwdown
• Nov 05 · A gh Alias For json Data
• Nov 04 · Canary Islands
• Nov 03 · An llm Plugin Hack
• Nov 02 · Convert Between json and yaml With yq
• Nov 01 · Willison's llm
• Oct 31 · Make Help
• Oct 30 · Jump to Next Row
• Oct 29 · Replacing pip with uv

2022

• Jun 12 · Welcome