Four months ago I asked ChatGPT a dumb question while walking my dog. It told me building a programming language wasn’t that hard. So I built one — a compiled language with explicit error handling, generics, structured concurrency, and a garbage collector. Here’s what happened.
· music
I thought streaming was the ethical upgrade from piracy. Turns out it just made music disposable. Now I buy CDs, pirate FLACs, and actually listen to albums again.
· go
Why I built mokapot — a single Go binary that speaks SQS and SNS well enough for real AWS SDKs to connect without configuration changes. Persistence, filter policies, and the tricky parts of faking a cloud service locally.
Four real examples from recent Go CLI projects — bracketed paste handling, a scripting DSL, safe symlink restoration, and diff truncation — that show how small decisions separate a script from a tool people trust.
What happens when you give an AI coding agent memory that persists across tasks? It stops repeating the same mistakes. Here’s how lgtm and snap use persistent findings, shared context, and self-recovery to close the loop from planning to merged PR.
· cli
Defining the ‘Gold Standard’ for production-ready CLIs: TTY-aware behavior, clean stdout vs stderr contracts, JSON output for automation, and idempotent mutations.
· web
Build lightweight, reactive toast notifications without React, frameworks, or JavaScript bloat. A step-by-step guide to clean, declarative UI using HTMX, CSS, and a few honest lines of code.
After running my blog on VitePress for over a year, I decided to migrate to Hugo with a custom theme. Here’s why I made the switch and what I learned in the process.
· git
Manage your dotfiles effortlessly: Lnk uses Git to move files into ~/.config/lnk, create reliable symlinks, handle host-specific overrides, and run bootstrap scripts automatically—no more messy bash hacks.
· llm
A refined, step-by-step process for managing larger projects with LLM codegen workflows—response to Harper Reed’s blog post.
· go
Frustrated with complex spinner libraries for your CLI apps? Meet pin—a lightweight, customizable, and dependency-free spinner built with only Go’s standard library, designed to keep your terminal outputs clean and efficient.
· docker
In the world of web development, securing your applications with SSL/TLS certificates is non-negotiable. However, managing SSL certificates can be a daunting task, especially when you’re dealing with multiple domains, renewals, and the complexities of the ACME protocol. This is why I created Zero, a lightweight SSL certificate manager designed to simplify the process of obtaining, renewing, and managing SSL/TLS certificates.
