Writing music with random melodies and the joy of building small programs.

Almost by accident, I built a macOS app for binding hotkeys to shell commands. This is a story about it.

Another addition to my Alfred workflows: a CloudApp-like image sharing support.

Using Alfred’s Script Filters to quickly jump to calendar events or relevant links.

I found a purpose for my Nintendo Switch: catching up on all the great indie games I’d skip on other platforms.

Julia and I participated in The Elm Game Jam #4. Here’s what we built.

Not all complexity is incidental. In music, it takes a trained ear to appreciate the loss.

My iOS shortcuts and macOS scripts for linking to Apple Notes.

My 110 hours with a game I thought I’d dislike.

In which I come to peace with the idea of understanding code by poking around.

This show was a joy to watch.

Announcing my experiment with shorter, less technical format.

A compilation of some notes I took while working on the maze generator in February.

In which, inspired by The Witness, I build a maze escape game in Elm 0.19.

Replacing the much wanted Firefox feature with a bit of AppleScript.

Learning to navigate my OS faster by typing more.

Re-discovering the simple joy of parsing formal grammars.

Reflecting on the failure of contemporary software to live up to the “thought amplifiers” vision. But there’s still hope!

A single line of iptables config that makes me unreasonably happy.

Using the traditional GTD review process to step up your personal data security and privacy game.

I set out to build a program that generates flashcards from dictionary pages, but ended up learning a lot about vocabulary gatekeepers and ultimately questioning the service economy.

I’m taking a break from obscure programming insights for an angry review on Uncharted 4.

Coding as a non-English speaker, or what Excel, Illustrator, and functional programming can teach us about names.

I spent a year doing all my work in a virtual machine. It made me appreciate the flexibility of Linux and question the difference between an app and a VM.

18 years after its release, I read the Hunt’s and Thomas’ bestseller. In this belated review I’m wondering about its current place.

As a part of my quest to find a place for Haskell at work, I’ve built a specialized CLI client for the Postmark API.

What makes deployments similar to database transactions, and why Capistrano is a good default choice to run your deployments.

While reviving my old Intel 8085 simulator, I realized this forgotten project still had lessons to teach me.

Filesystems are difficult. In order to interact with them, programmers often rely on lossy abstractions. Sometimes this harmless habit backfires.

A story of how I reverse engineered the OmniFocus Sync protocol just to make it work with my NGINX WebDAV server.

I barely survived Bloodborne, but still can’t believe how good it is.

A post-mortem of my first production-scale machine learning system.

GitHub, too, is now within reach from your favorite code editor.

I built a plugin that brings Beanstalk one step closer to your code editor.