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Watching Oxide original ↗

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Coding by guess and check original ↗

27 Jun 2026

A pattern language, from the world order to the windowsill original ↗

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Musing on the reality of abstraction in software original ↗

14 Jun 2026

RSS is my inbox for the web original ↗

4 Apr 2026

2025

A software commons?original ↗

30 Nov 2025

Chesterton-proof your fences original ↗

16 Nov 2025

jj bough, a useful alias for stacked branches original ↗

30 Oct 2025

How not to write like a bot original ↗

4 Aug 2025

The solid universe of Thief: The Dark Project original ↗

19 Jul 2025

On being nuts original ↗

9 Jun 2025

Link dump 3 original ↗

11 May 2025

On booleans original ↗

25 Apr 2025

Those stars and stripes are torn in two original ↗

18 Apr 2025

Against PDFs original ↗

13 Apr 2025

Optimisation as vertical integration original ↗

7 Apr 2025

Nothing is too good for the poor original ↗

15 Mar 2025

Exploding the idea of a database original ↗

5 Feb 2025

Peace is the absence of fear original ↗

4 Feb 2025

The internet is a series of cables encircling the world original ↗

20 Jan 2025

A statement of intent for affordable housing in 2025 original ↗

8 Jan 2025

Link dump 2 original ↗

7 Jan 2025

2024

Durable execution versus session backends original ↗

27 Dec 2024

Six months of Framework original ↗

24 Dec 2024

What Laravel's encrypted casts can protect you from original ↗

16 Dec 2024

It's a 1+n problem, not a n+1 problem original ↗

12 Dec 2024

De-escalate vocabulary, de-escalate hype original ↗

7 Dec 2024

Why there should only be 5 HTTP response codes original ↗

5 Dec 2024

Lightning talk on JSON:API at PHP Sydney original ↗

3 Dec 2024

Lessons from the JSON-RPC mailing list original ↗

30 Nov 2024

Somebody please clone Cloudflare Durable Objects original ↗

29 Nov 2024

We are all very near despair original ↗

25 Nov 2024

Farewell Devonshire Street, hello Pilgrim House original ↗

24 Nov 2024

Thoughts on git commits, branches, PRs and stacking original ↗

23 Nov 2024

Site repair original ↗

19 Nov 2024

Link dump 1 original ↗

17 Nov 2024

Nobody knows about Zulip original ↗

14 Nov 2024

Paradicms, a minimum viable CMS original ↗

13 Nov 2024

Rebuilding the blog original ↗

12 Nov 2024

Rebooting the blog original ↗

9 Nov 2024

Framework unboxing original ↗

30 Jun 2024

Attending Yearly Meeting 2024 original ↗

26 Jun 2024

Relational original ↗

23 May 2024

Exponential ideas original ↗

20 Mar 2024

2021

Lego blocks are never a good analogy original ↗

12 Dec 2021

How I Learned OOP: A Nightmare original ↗

5 Nov 2021

Australian media has an RSS problem original ↗

19 Feb 2021

2020

Destroy All Dependencies original ↗

30 Nov 2020

Lessons in object-oriented design original ↗

7 Jul 2020

Enemie Anonimous original ↗

23 Jun 2020

Wabi Concrete Box original ↗

23 Jun 2020

A stateless token case study: Algolia search API original ↗

16 Jun 2020

JavaScript's ecosystem is uniquely paranoid original ↗

27 May 2020

2019

It turns everything it touches into a machine original ↗

17 Sept 2019

2018

Book notes from 2018 original ↗

31 Dec 2018

2017

Loyalty: a primer for my friends and family original ↗

24 Oct 2017

2015

Development versus deployment: Docker and Haskell original ↗

10 Jul 2015

2014

A matter of opinion: what I dislike about TorqueScript original ↗

25 Dec 2014

Monster Mash: entry #2 original ↗

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Monster Mash: entry #1 original ↗

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Monster Mash: entry #0 original ↗

29 Jun 2014

The Torque 3D shutdown sequence - a safari original ↗

24 Jun 2014

The Torque 3D unit testing system - a safari original ↗

22 Jun 2014

IO: You may say I'm a monad, but I'm not the only one!original ↗

21 Jan 2014

2013

Micro-tutorial: liftM by accident original ↗

28 Nov 2013