Trying GitHub Actions

And reflecting on past experiences with CI tooling

Up To Now

Troubleshooting Hardware Issues On My Linux Laptop

Scripting My Desktop Windows

I’ve been using Linux for many years, mainly for the amount of control and flexibility it gives me.

Adapting Code Written By Other People

Looking at a couple of different ways to integrate third-party code into my own codebase

Using libraries, frameworks, and external APIs has obvious benefits — code I don’t have to maintain myself. But, it’s pretty common to overlook the…

Writing a Shell Script to Clean Up Browser Tabs

What Do Software Engineering Patterns Afford?

Reflecting on how people talk about code

Thinking About Code Readability

While playing with time series data

Today, I’m working on taking bank accounts and visualizing their balances over time. For each account, I have today’s balance and a list of transactions. I want to compute the balance at the end of each day from…

Code-Augmented Editing

Thanks to the design and expressiveness of Vim’s interface, I’m able to figure out how to automate repetitive edits while performing those edits — programming by example.

And, because Vim also provides commands that execute Vimscript expressions or shell…

The Subtle Cost of Side Effects

And how they affect testability and reusability

Sometimes, we hear colleagues say that using global variables is bad. But why is it bad, and why might someone want to do it anyways?