Resources & guides
18 November 2022
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Essays & opinions
This is a series about a research rabbit hole I've been going down over the last year or so, about a kind of incremental programming approach for games, UIs, and more [...] ·
30 September 2024
6 February 2022
How big are the largest projects today? What if they were 100x bigger? ·
15 June 2022
It's well-known that state management in programs can lead to a lot of problems. Spaghetti machines of far too many transitions, orchestrated by widely-visible variables, lead to hard-to-debug, hard-to-change code. [...] ·
24 June 2023
Most reactive systems in use today lack important abstractions, making it easy to write inconsistent code ·
30 July 2023
Ideas for a language targeting shell scripts ·
1 May 2022
23 February 2019
Interesting articles elsewhere
- Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing - The Old New Thing
- Laurence Tratt: Which Parsing Approach?: a review of different ways to implement parsing, and their tradeoffs
- Common Misconceptions about Compilers
- Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt. - Irrational Exuberance
- newren/git-filter-repo: Quickly rewrite git repository history
- Two articles about what coroutines are really for: Philosophy of coroutines - Simon Tatham / research!rsc: Storing Data in Control Flow
- Two articles about designing error handling: How do you cut a monolith in half? / Scaling in the presence of errors—don’t ignore them) (“Systems grow by pushing responsibilities to the edges”)
- Push Ifs Up And Fors Down - matklad
- Quick takes on the GCP public incident write-up – Surfing Complexity: an insight into great incident response mindset
- Technical Debt — notes.doismellburning.co.uk - big catalog of articles about it
- Breaking systems into modules - Ted Kaminski
- Designing with types: Making illegal states unrepresentable
- The one ring problem: abstraction and our quest for power - Ted Kaminski
- Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login” - nicole@web
- Restyling apps at scale – Space and Meaning (or rather, how it’s not really possible)
- Why Kakoune — The quest for a better code editor (This convinced me that modal editing is good and the things I don’t like about Vim are about Vim specifically and not about modal editing in general. I now have been using Kakoune-inspired extension Dance in VS Code for several years. Also the official documentation for Vim and Kakoune lack context and are hard to learn from; they should be more like Practical Vim command workflow - Max Shen Dev.)
- Incidents — notes.doismellburning.co.uk (a collection of resources on incidents)
- Schema migrations and avoiding downtime - quanttype (didn’t even realise this could be an issue)
- dbmate: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool
- Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!
- Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation - Arcan