Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte Lisp Moving Forth Moving Lisp Weird By Design This chapter is a culmination of many macro techniques we have looked at so far in this book. Using macro abstractions we have developed, we create … Read more
Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork(), which creates a child process as a copy of the parent, and exec(), which runs a new program in the place of the current … Read more
Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy … Read more
As I mentioned in my post earlier this week, we just completed a migration from WordPress to Jekyll. I outlined a couple of reasons for it but basically came down to preference, speed, and ability to make changes easily. Frameworks … Read more
When Colin Chapman said “simplify, then add lightness,” he was talking about racecars. Chapman was a legendary F1 engineer and founder of Lotus. They won races not by adding power but by removing everything that wasn’t load-bearing. He was so … Read more
2025-09-06 I’ve just started to migrate some repositories from GitHub to Codeberg. I’ve wanted to do this for a long time but have stalled on it because I perceived Codeberg as not being ready and the migration process as being … Read more
Here are my dotfiles. When I was still using Manjaro Linux back in 2019, I got a nudge to try i3wm. It was my first experience with any window manager. And I spent nearly 5 years with it, enjoying the … Read more
Published 2 days ago, updated today For years, using US clouds in the EU has been questionable. Time and time again, data-sharing agreements between the EU and the US get busted, showing there’s just no legal compatibility between EU privacy … Read more
It’s been a busy year for Scholarly. At this time last year, we were just closing our first contracts after having been in business for 6 months. Since then, we’ve raised a seed round, achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance, … Read more
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully … Read more