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2024

Blog Microfeatures
24 June 2024
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
4 June 2024
Running A Business Changes The Way You Think
30 May 2024
I love my wife. My wife is dead (1946)
30 May 2024
What factors explain the nature of software?
14 May 2024
Understandable Software
15 April 2024

2023

Tooling for large teams
30 December 2023
Life Lessons from the Death Bed
1 November 2023
DALL-E 3 Prompt Engineering
27 October 2023
Stories about big decisions
19 August 2023
20 lessons from the 20th century
15 August 2023
Free to not do a thing
11 August 2023
Recommended finance books
30 June 2023
Deep Dive into GarminOS and its MonkeyC Virtual Machine
24 April 2023
MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts for Developers
24 April 2023
Photographer: Léonard Misonne
6 April 2023
Interesting AI
5 April 2023
Sparks of General Intelligence
24 March 2023
Who becomes an entrepreneur?
20 March 2023
Photographer: Willem Verbeek
15 March 2023
Photographer: Esther Brown
15 March 2023
Six Types of Wealth
13 March 2023
The Case for Travelling More
13 March 2023
High levels of bitcoin dormancy
26 February 2023
Elitism as the mid-career growth engine
20 February 2023
What is an engineering strategy
20 February 2023
Childhoods of exceptional people
20 February 2023
The sleeping beauty problem
13 February 2023
Is success luck or hardwork?
13 February 2023
Letter to 15 year old me
10 February 2023
Fun, Fear, Pain, Accomplishment
28 January 2023
Ben Howard - The End of the Affair
14 January 2023
YAML gotchas
12 January 2023
All that is gold does not glitter
10 January 2023
January Music
5 January 2023
Small Teams
5 January 2023
Photographer: Fan Ho
2 January 2023
Photographer: Robert Doisneau
2 January 2023

2022

Three Falls in the Alps
27 December 2022
Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
26 May 2022
Don't avoid sunlight
23 May 2022
Tmux tutorials
9 May 2022
Newish Command-Line Tools
13 April 2022
Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid
12 April 2022
MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts
5 April 2022
Dan Lebrero book notes
24 March 2022
Personal website as a mini-game
13 March 2022
Staff Engineer
13 March 2022
Founder Salaries
1 March 2022
James' Book Summaries
28 February 2022
Tools to help children learn to code
9 February 2022
Moxie on web3
8 January 2022

2021

Solo founder
24 December 2021
How to monetize a SaaS
14 December 2021
First five minutes on a server
8 December 2021
Adding JSON output to a CLI app
6 December 2021
nvim.CoC
3 December 2021
Find
3 December 2021
Tmux sessions
3 December 2021
Multi-tenant Django webapps
25 November 2021
The 3-2-1 backup rule
25 November 2021
Lessons from creating a production database
24 November 2021
Proxy Servers
22 November 2021
Unison
17 November 2021
Japanese philosophies for spending money
14 November 2021
Uninstall all pip packages
9 November 2021
alpine.js
9 November 2021
Zsh commands: exec vs source
9 November 2021
Chezmoi commands
5 November 2021
zsh suspend or push function
5 November 2021
Stoicism
4 November 2021
Math explainers
4 November 2021
Do-nothing scripts
3 November 2021
SaaS metrics that matter
19 October 2021
Training Zones
19 October 2021
Naming things is hard
14 October 2021
Tove Lo - Habits
14 October 2021
Ultra-running benchmarks
1 October 2021
Vim built-in color names
29 September 2021
Lightning network point-of-sale
28 September 2021
Make files
28 September 2021
Linux performance analysis in 60 seconds
27 September 2021
Stop reading the news
22 September 2021
View and change settings for GCloud CLI
22 September 2021
Google Pub/Sub
20 September 2021
Google Cloud Storage - TTL and CORS settings
20 September 2021
Handwritten letters at scale
20 September 2021
The dangers of social media
16 September 2021
Visual mathematical proofs
11 September 2021
9/11 and the American psyche
10 September 2021
How doctors die
9 September 2021
Life
8 September 2021
Slavery
8 September 2021
Cloud Functions Minimum Instances
8 September 2021
nmap
4 September 2021
Understanding GCP charges
27 August 2021
My dead dad's journal
26 August 2021
Miller CLI
25 August 2021
Conditionally setting your git config
24 August 2021
Conway's Law
16 August 2021
Pen-testing web apps
6 August 2021
Running through adversity
6 August 2021
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk
4 August 2021
Remote Working
2 August 2021
Athletes, Careers, and Mental Health
2 August 2021
WTF Python
2 August 2021
Heuristics for effective software development
26 July 2021
Start with Finance to transform IT
14 July 2021
The Worst Volume Control UI
14 July 2021
Daughter
12 July 2021
Moral tyranny
12 July 2021
Upgrading Cryptographic Libraries
10 July 2021
Startup Engineering Lessons
10 July 2021
Poisson's Equation
6 July 2021
Thomas Aquinas
6 July 2021
Edward Hopper's Paintings
30 June 2021
Some experiences can be taught, but some must be lived
29 June 2021
Georges St-Pierre Training Meta
29 June 2021
I would like to take some time to explore what it means to be alive
24 June 2021
Believe half of what you see and now't of what you hear.
24 June 2021
Django for Startup Founders
23 June 2021
Alfie Solomons
22 June 2021
Bifurcation Theory
17 June 2021
Apple's iCloud+ "VPN"
16 June 2021
Rich
16 June 2021
Practice
16 June 2021
Vim Sneak
15 June 2021
Axiom
12 June 2021
Foxes and Hedgehogs
12 June 2021
Pair programming using Vim
12 June 2021
Man swallowed by whale
12 June 2021
Git LFS
11 June 2021
Your .bashrc doesn't have to be a mess
11 June 2021
John Kelly finishing the 2017 Barkley Marathons.
10 June 2021
A Project of One's Own
8 June 2021
Performance Optimizations for the shell prompt
28 May 2021
Vim spellcheck commands
27 May 2021
Grep only inside particular files
18 May 2021
View a List of Keyboard Mappings in Vim
18 May 2021
Training → Knowledge → Confidence → Victory
14 May 2021
Forward Email
14 May 2021
Nested Auto Commands for Overriding Colorschemes
13 May 2021
Vim Snippets
13 May 2021
See where Vim is setting an option
12 May 2021
Globbing
10 May 2021
Vimscript functions
5 May 2021
Better Text Objects
5 May 2021
Delete stuff in Vim without leaving insert mode
5 May 2021
Global Aliases
5 May 2021
Vim register for yanked text
5 May 2021
ChezMoi shortcuts
5 May 2021
Sleep
4 May 2021
Bash Strict Mode
4 May 2021
How to write an About Page
4 May 2021
Domain Name Registrars
3 May 2021
The Honest Troubleshooting Code of Conduct
3 May 2021
Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
2 May 2021
Browser Security
30 April 2021
Linus Torvalds
29 April 2021
Remote Procedure Calls
29 April 2021
An interesting blog
29 April 2021
lsblk
28 April 2021
Ranger File Manager
28 April 2021
Vim Regex
28 April 2021
All Known Locations of an Executable
25 April 2021
alias to real
20 April 2021
Reorganize tmux windows
19 April 2021
vim save sudo
17 April 2021
The trouble with climbing higher is that eventually you lose sight of the ground.
16 April 2021
Broot
13 April 2021
Adding Keyboard Navigation
12 April 2021
Github Actions
10 April 2021
Socially Acceptable Mistakes
10 April 2021
`du` is a tool for showing disk usage.
7 April 2021
Safe Bash Scripting
6 April 2021
Running a Binary in Debian
5 April 2021
Creating Slowly
1 April 2021
Arrow syntax in bash
1 April 2021
Pretty print JSON
31 March 2021
Useful Business
30 March 2021
Frantic Distraction
30 March 2021
Rearrange splits in Vim
29 March 2021
Pelican Plugin Guide
29 March 2021
Read and Write the Same File in Bash
24 March 2021
JSON tools
24 March 2021
Docker Commands
17 March 2021
Pipe a Script File into Bash
11 March 2021
Split Long Strings
10 March 2021
ripgrep Regret
10 March 2021
Teaching Kids About Money
5 March 2021
Stop Prepending sudo to Docker Commands
5 March 2021
`cat` and a new line
5 March 2021
Creating Users With Sudo Permissions
4 March 2021
Disk Full and Disk Usage Commands
3 March 2021
Git LFS
3 March 2021
nohup
2 March 2021
Shell Comparisons
2 March 2021

2020

Dreaming of Emacs
27 November 2020