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I publish computer zines at Wizard Zines.
I publish computer zines at Wizard Zines.
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Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed) | ||
Entering text in the terminal is complicated | ||
Reasons to use your shell's job control |
Cool computer tools / features / ideas
Things i built
Git
Nix
Some notes on NixOS | ||
Some notes on nix flakes | ||
How do Nix builds work? | ||
Some notes on using nix |
Dns
Computer networking
How a computer thing works
Binary representations of things
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes | ||
Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004? | ||
Examples of problems with integers | ||
Examples of floating point problems |
Kubernetes / containers
Zines / comics
Exercises
On writing words
Some tactics for writing in public | ||
Some blogging myths | ||
Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps | ||
Patterns in confusing explanations | ||
Write good examples by starting with real code |
On writing comics / zines
Conferences
Organizing conferences
Ideas for making better conference talks & conferences | ||
You can choose who submits talks to your conference | ||
Should my conference do anonymous review? | ||
Anonymous talk review is amazing. |
Businesses / marketing
A few things I've learned about email marketing | ||
saturday comics: a weekly mailing list of programming comics | ||
A few early marketing thoughts | ||
Who pays to educate developers? | ||
I started a corporation! |
Statistics / machine learning / data analysis
Year in review
2023: Year in review | ||
Some business graphs for 2022 | ||
2021: Year in review | ||
2020: Year in review | ||
2019: Year in review | ||
2018: Year in review | ||
2017: Year in review | ||
2016: Year in review | ||
2015: Year in review |
Talks
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy | ||
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years | ||
New talk: High Reliability Infrastructure Migrations | ||
Build impossible programs | ||
So you want to be a wizard |
Infrastructure / operations engineering
Career / work
Working with others / communication
Remote work
Talks transcripts / podcasts
On blogging / speaking
On learning
Rust
Linux debugging / tracing tools
Debugging
Debugging stories
Fan posts about awesome work by other people
Inclusion
Not about computers
Making crochet cacti |
Rbspy
Performance
Open source
Figuring out how to contribute to open source | ||
A few questions about open source | ||
Learning at open source sprints (no preparation required) | ||
★ | Don't feel guilty about not contributing to open source |