2023

September

• Sep 25: Lessons Learned as a User 3: Prepare for the Future

August

• Aug 18: The Scourge of 00UB
• Aug 18: I Have Blocked OpenAI

July

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

April

• Apr 24: AI Evangelists Scare Me

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 4: Make the Leap Second First-Class: An Open Letter to the International Telecommunication Union
• Feb 3: A Git Sin: Re-Signing an Entire Git Repo
• Feb 3: My Code Conquered Another OS!

2022

October

• Oct 28: We Must Professionalize Programming to Preserve Society and Computing Freedom
• Oct 24: Technical Debt Costs More Than You Think, or My Software Development Process

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

January

• Jan 14: The Law of Strict Licenses
• Jan 9: The Social Contract of Open Source

2021

December

• Dec 24: Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?

October

• Oct 27: My Whitepaper About GitHub Copilot
• Oct 1: "Static Linking Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful

September

• Sep 7: Comments on Cosmopolitan and Culture

July

• Jul 28: Projects in the Pipeline
• Jul 7: Poisoning GitHub Copilot and Machine Learning

June

• Jun 7: Software Developers Are the Problem and the Solution

April

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

March

• Mar 31: Lessons Learned as a User 2: Eat Your Own Dog Food
• Mar 31: Lessons Learned as a User 1: Ease Matters
• Mar 31: Setting Aside an Idea: Decentralized Identities

February

• Feb 27: Rust, Zig, and the Futility of "Replacing" C
• Feb 25: Adventures in Backing Up Data with ZFS

January

• Jan 29: Dynamic Linking Needs to Die

2020

December

• Dec 26: Testing the Feasibility of Hardware Pipes 2: Exploring Designs
• Dec 14: My Development Environment and How I Got There

August

• Aug 20: The Software Industry Is Broken

July

• Jul 3: Decentralizing the Internet and Other Ideas
• Jul 3: Testing the Feasibility of Hardware Pipes

May

• May 7: Software Engineer Body of Knowledge

April

• Apr 8: I Am Moving Away from GitHub

February

• Feb 19: Computing Is Broken and How to Fix It
• Feb 19: Another Reason to Hate Patents
• Feb 17: Head in the Hurricane: Securing a Web Server

January

• Jan 31: Designing the Hundred-Year Language
• Jan 31: Designing a Type System
• Jan 17: What Yzena Is

2019

December

• Dec 25: Values for Yao
• Dec 25: Designing for Good Thoughts
• Dec 22: Smart Devices Are Dangerous
• Dec 16: Structured Concurrency Definition
• Dec 15: Performance Matters: Jekyll vs Hugo
• Dec 1: bc/dc Tips and Tricks

November

• Nov 28: bc PRNG
• Nov 24: Finishing Software
• Nov 23: Verifying a Safety Number in Signal
• Nov 21: Shrinking a Website
• Nov 15: Auditing Software Is Hard

August

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

2018

November

• Nov 5: Code of Conduct for Yzena

August

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

May

• May 31: Programming Language Wish List