The OpperBlog

Practical Racket: Using a JSON REST API

Why Racket?

I’ve mostly been discouraged from writing smaller, one-off programs in Scheme/Racket because I’ve only used it in an academic context. This includes writing a small interpreter in a programming languages class in…

Using the Hacker News API

Compliments and Criticisms

Using Chrome DevTools to debug frontend and backend JavaScript

A console.log intervention

Moving from Linux to OSX

Why it isn’t a goodbye

Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean

Background

Jails are a way to create an isolated environment to run programs in on FreeBSD. The idea is that given a directory subtree, hostname, ip address, and start command, you can have an isolated environment to run…

iFixit

This is just the beginning

I started writing this a month after I started…