Recent Posts
3 months ago - <![CDATA[Notes on switching to Helix from vim]]>
7 months ago - <![CDATA[New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal]]>
7 months ago - <![CDATA[Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)]]>
11 months ago - <![CDATA[Standards for ANSI escape codes]]>
11 months ago - <![CDATA[How to add a directory to your PATH]]>
12 months ago - <![CDATA[Some terminal frustrations]]>
last year - <![CDATA[What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?]]>
last year - <![CDATA["Rules" that terminal programs follow]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system]]>
last year - <![CDATA[New microblog with TILs]]>
last year - <![CDATA[ASCII control characters in my terminal]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Some notes on upgrading Hugo]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Terminal colours are tricky]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Some Go web dev notes]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Reasons I still love the fish shell]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Migrating Mess With DNS to use PowerDNS]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Entering text in the terminal is complicated]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Reasons to use your shell's job control]]>
last year - <![CDATA[New zine: How Git Works!]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Notes on git's error messages]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Making crochet cacti]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Some Git poll results]]>
last year - <![CDATA[The "current branch" in git]]>
last year - <![CDATA[How HEAD works in git]]>
last year - <![CDATA[Popular git config options]]>
2 years ago - <![CDATA[Dealing with diverged git branches]]>
2 years ago - <![CDATA[Inside .git]]>
2 years ago - <![CDATA[Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?]]>
3 years ago - Celebrate tiny learning milestones
3 years ago - How to use undocumented web APIs
3 years ago - Some tiny personal programs I've written
3 years ago - Some things about getaddrinfo that surprised me
3 years ago - Things that used to be hard and are now easy
3 years ago - The multiple meanings of "nameserver" and "DNS resolver"
4 years ago - A toy DNS resolver
4 years ago - Reasons for servers to support IPv6
4 years ago - Hosting my static sites with nginx
4 years ago - Some ways DNS can break
4 years ago - How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
4 years ago - Why might you run your own DNS server?
4 years ago - 2021: Year in review
4 years ago - New tool: Mess with DNS!
4 years ago - DNS "propagation" is actually caches expiring
4 years ago - How to use dig
4 years ago - Debugging a weird 'file not found' error
4 years ago - Some notes on using esbuild
4 years ago - How do you tell if a problem is caused by DNS?
4 years ago - How to get useful answers to your questions
4 years ago - Tools to explore BGP
4 years ago - All my zines are now available in print!
4 years ago - New tool: an nginx playground
4 years ago - Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps
4 years ago - Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun
4 years ago - Quadratic algorithms are slow (and hashmaps are fast)
4 years ago - Patterns in confusing explanations
4 years ago - Write good examples by starting with real code
4 years ago - Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
4 years ago - You can now buy print version of my zines!
4 years ago - Blog about what you've struggled with
4 years ago - How to look at the stack with gdb
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