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Markdown Rendering with Awk
I can't believe I'm writing another post about Awk but I'm just having too much fun throwing together tiny Awk scripts. This time around that tiny Awk script is a markdown renderer, converting...
DM Tools with Awk
I picked up Awk on a whim and am blown away by how generally useful it is. What I thought was a quick and dirty tool for parsing tabulated files turns out to be a fully-featured scripting...
A Few Months with Kagi
I've subscribed to Kagi for a few months now and wanted to collect some of my feelings towards it, particularly addressing whether I think it's worth paying $10/mo for a search engine. To summarize:...
My Year in Reading
I read 24 books in 2023, a total of just over 8,000 pages. It was an uncommonly productive year for me, not driven by any particular goal but rather a general interest in a few choice authors and...
How to Install React
Tsoding's recent stream about React is a hilarious reminder of the complications of web development tooling and the lack of support for beginners who want to take a bottom-up approach to...
Hypermedia and Hyperbole
My partner and I are slowly working our way through the Myst series and have finally started Myst 3: Exile. We were both surprised by how much of a departure this entry is to the previous Myst games....
Recently
I'm taking a page from Tom MacWright's blog and am trying out a "Recently" series, where I summarize a few things on my mind since my last post. Recently I've been tinkering with...
Deno + Tree Sitter + Emacs
I've been spending a bunch of time fiddling with Deno lately, mostly in the form of small scripts and Fresh projects. One thing that hasn't impressed me doesn't have anything to do with Deno itself...
Building a Compiler for My Static Site Generator
My side project has exploded in scope. My original goal was to build a static site generator to learn how they work, not to support lots of features. Yet here I am building a compiler for my own...
Small Weekend Projects
I love small weekend projects. A project completed in two days is either smartly scoped or hacked together; the core of a great idea that's been sitting in the back of your mind or a feat of...
Building a Flymake Backend for Clippy
Last weekend I had a great time building my own Flymake backend for Clippy (the Rust linter): flymake-clippy. If you haven't heard of Flymake, it's old-school Emacs tech for showing squiggly-lines in...
Thoughts on Taiji
As a big fan of The Witness I'm always on the lookout for games that scratch a similar itch. Unfortunately that list is fairly short; common recommendations include games of direct inspiration (Cyan's...
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