2024

March

• Mar 26: What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness
• Mar 19: Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems

February

• Feb 15: How Yzena Versions Software and Interfaces
• Feb 15: Version Interfaces, Not Implementations

2023

December

• Dec 27: Is "Source Available" Really That Bad?
• Dec 1: A Decade of Developing a Programming Language: A Response Response

August

• Aug 18: The Scourge of 00UB

July

• Jul 10: How Yzena Versions Software
• Jul 10: How I Made a Monorepo

February

• Feb 26: Programming Will Always Use Text
• Feb 20: Justifying a Backwards Design Decision for Yao
• Feb 4: Why I Use C When I Believe in Memory Safety
• Feb 3: A Git Sin: Re-Signing an Entire Git Repo
• Feb 3: My Code Conquered Another OS!

2022

September

• Sep 24: Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work

April

• Apr 9: I Believe Zig Has Function Colors

March

• Mar 15: I Am a Fool: First Adventures in Multi-Threading

February

• Feb 10: Goodbye, Kitty

2021

July

• Jul 28: Projects in the Pipeline

April

• Apr 7: Counting Words in C with Yc
• Apr 3: My First Programs
• Apr 2: A dc Script for Easter

2020

December

• Dec 14: My Development Environment and How I Got There

February

• Feb 19: Computing Is Broken and How to Fix It

January

• Jan 31: Designing the Hundred-Year Language
• Jan 31: Designing a Type System

2019

December

• Dec 25: Values for Yao
• Dec 25: Designing for Good Thoughts
• Dec 16: Structured Concurrency Definition
• Dec 1: bc/dc Tips and Tricks

November

• Nov 28: bc PRNG
• Nov 15: Auditing Software Is Hard

August

• Aug 24: Why Perfect Software Is Nearly Impossible
• Aug 13: Link-Time Optimization vs Single-File Code

2018

November

• Nov 6: PL Design 4: Features
• Nov 6: PL Design 3: Reducing Bugs
• Nov 6: PL Design 2: Reducing Friction

August

• Aug 16: PL Design 1: Principles
• Aug 14: Tech Crises

May

• May 31: Programming Language Wish List