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Hello everyone, it’s KP. Welcome to the 2nd edition in this new interview series that highlights top founders and creators who’re boldly building their projects, startups and creative ventures in public. My intention is to ask them a consistent set … Read more

I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently … Read more

This February marks five years since quitting my corporate 9-5 job and jumping into indie hacking full time. Five years always felt like an important benchmark for my journey. Therefore, I wanted to take time to share the three biggest … Read more

I really like goaccess. I use it to build reports about what’s being read on my blog, based on my logs, ever since I ditched all the spying tools that run on your browser when you’re accessing my page. Perhaps … Read more

Just over a year ago, I did something quite “out there”, even for me, and I posted my salary history publicly. This was accompanied by a blog post to explain why I was doing it, and it’s certainly been popular. … Read more

One of my recent side projects was building an automated trading system for the crypto markets. To be fair, I probably spent more time on this than on my full-time job, so calling it a side project may not be … Read more

Hello, friends, Ever since my Twitter account was hacked a decade ago—because of a weak password—I’ve been passionate about creating and using better passwords. I use a password manager for most accounts, and my most important passwords are long word … Read more

The prototypical compilers textbook is: 600 pages on parsing theory. Three pages of type-checking a first-order type system like C. Zero pages on storing and checking the correctness of declarations (the “symbol table”). Zero pages on the compilation model, and … Read more