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SvelteKit Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with @urql/svelte

Learn why server-side rendering (SSR) using urql as a GraphQL client is not as straightforward as you might think and how to do it anyway.

iPhones and action discoverability, or "How the hell was I supposed to know that?"

Discoverability I spend a lot of my time thinking about UX and design, and I try to consciously think about it in the wild when I can. One of the things that always catches my eyes is the idea of d...

A new chapter for Changelog podcasts

Adam and I have wanted our podcasts to have chapters for a looooong time. Like, multiple years long. They’re such a great way to navigate and explore an episode. You can skip directly to the subjec...

Humans vs. Machines: The End for Competitive Chess

Please be aware that the views expressed in this poste are solely those of the author and do not represent the official stance of any chess federation or organization. The world of competitive ches...

My Types of Dissociation

I’ve realized that when I talk about dissociating, I can really be talking about a number of different experiences. So I decided to categorize and define some of the versions I talk about most ofte...

Superstition - an engineering anti-pattern

Design patterns are reusable approaches to common problems - anti-patterns are the same, but ineffective (and even counterproductive). An example of a design pattern is the singleton - we often wan...

Stubbornness and programming

Every now and then, there will be the type of problem to solve where I know it will require an extra cup of coffee, a long block of dedicated time, and a lot of careful reading, debugging, note tak...

Life’s a Glitch

The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

Who Can It Be Now

On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

Tracking the I’ll Give You Series vs. My Mental Health at the Time

I wrote a post a while back: “Tracking Contrivance vs. My Mental Health at the Time,” an exercise in tracing changes in my writing versus changes in my mental health. For this post, I’m doing it ag...

Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

WebSocket (WS) connections are pretty neat. I’ve gotten to play around with them before, both for personal and professional projects, but my view has mostly been at a high level and concerned mainl...

Colony Collapse

God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hills to rule over. But they are also premised on the idea that we too are ants an...

Top 3 USELESS JavaScript interview questions 🤮

Unix is not Linux

Things to be aware of when discussing the shell and Unix programs.

Trying to add search to this website

I’m interested in adding some search functionality to this website. Unfortunately, it looks like adding search to a blogdown site is something that is more theme specific. Since my theme does not i...

Dreaming in Color

Satoshi Kon's movies, which paralleled the rise of social media, explore the surreal meeting of interiority and public life

Hold the Line

Media technology is not a modern antidote to older, vernacular modes of information transmission. Folklore instead thrives through these new channels, helping explain and assimilate new technologie...

What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really

I dabble with DNS for work, and I’m frequently checking if CNAMEs are properly configured. CNAMEs are Canonical NAMEs, kind of like nicknames, that indicate that one domain name is a nickname for a...

The data do not speak for themselves

Statistical modelling may seem like a very complex enterprise. Our correspondents often say “I’m not interested in modelling my data; I only want to analyse it.” However, any kind of data analysis ...

Quotes from Box, Hunter, and Hunter's Statistics for Experimenters

There are some quotes about design of experiments on the inside of Box, Hunter, and Hunter (BHH). Here are the ones that I enjoy the most. I think I extracted about 25% of the quotes that are in th...