Categories

Photography

  • Oakland, CA 08 April 2022
  • Fall at Red Barn Farm 24 October 2021
  • Rogers, AR 2021 03 October 2021
  • San Diego 2021 09 August 2021
  • San Diego, CA 23 January 2019
  • Christmas Cookies 14 December 2018
  • Reflection 18 November 2018
  • Union Station Ceiling 28 October 2018
  • Fall Colors 27 October 2018
  • Sweet Boy 02 September 2018
  • Sunrise over MCI 23 January 2018
  • Happy Baby 18 January 2018
  • Great Grandma 30 November 2017
  • Benjamin at 5 Months 03 September 2017
  • Colorado 2017 12 August 2017
  • Captain Mel Rodgers 19 October 1950

    • Music

  • Lucid 28 May 2008
  • Lake Michigan (Instrumental Cover) 24 April 2008
  • Bulldog News 03 April 2007

    • Philosophy

  • Review of After Virtue 05 December 2018
  • Notes on After Virtue 01 December 2018
  • On guarding against your own mistakes 18 July 2018
  • Emergence and the Mind 02 December 2010
  • Free Will in the Age of Materialism 30 November 2010
  • Distributive Justice: Egalitarianism versus Libertarianism 01 May 2010
  • Going Beyond the Evidence: James’ “Will to Believe” 18 February 2010

    • Cognitive Science

  • Building Better Habits 04 October 2018
  • On the Acquisition of Semantic Categories 02 March 2011
  • Emergence and the Mind 02 December 2010

    • Annotated Bibliography

  • Does HAL Cry Digital Tears? Emotion and Computers – Rosalind Picard 21 February 2011
  • Minsky’s Frame System Theory 14 February 2011
  • Some Challenges and Grand Challenges for Computational Intelligence – Edward Feigenbaum 07 February 2011
  • Mind Design – John Haugeland 05 February 2011
  • Computing Machinery and Intelligence – Alan Turing 05 February 2011

    • Linguistics

  • On the Acquisition of Semantic Categories 02 March 2011

    • Computer Science

  • Esoteric Data Structures and Where to Find Them 02 November 2017
  • The Problem of Collision Avoidance in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 08 June 2011

    • Programming

  • Fixing Full Recompiles of Elixir Caused by Claude Code 11 March 2026
  • TIL about ExUnit's global assert_receive_timeout default config 01 June 2023
  • TIL: use copy() in the JavaScript console 01 March 2023
  • TIL Postgres NULL comparisons rules can bite you on WHERE … NOT IN 01 June 2022
  • TIL you can have type predicates in TypeScript 22 May 2022
  • Translating User Interfaces Is Way Harder Than You Think (And You’re Probably Doing It Wrong) 02 May 2022
  • Don’t Write Exploding Streams 25 April 2022
  • Refactoring Toward Algorithms in Elixir 14 April 2022
  • Taking Hashrocket’s “Ultimate Elixir CI” to the Next Level 12 April 2022
  • TIL about the differences between Elixir's boolean operators 12 April 2022
  • TIL: Elixir doctests support import: true 28 March 2022
  • Write More Pure Functions 16 March 2022
  • TIL about default parameters in Elixir 17 February 2022
  • TIL the difference between Elixir URI's parse/1 and new/1 16 February 2022
  • TIL about the Elixir typedstruct package 08 January 2022
  • Shooting Yourself in the Foot with GenServers 02 December 2021
  • TIL about Elixir's System.unique_integer/1 15 November 2021
  • Enum.slide/3 is coming in Elixir 1.13 06 November 2021
  • TIL Elixir always runs tests within a test module synchronously 01 November 2021
  • Architecting GenServers for Testability in Elixir 12 September 2021
  • TIL Elixir's || supports nil fallback 17 August 2021
  • TIL Elixir's for comprehension supports filtering 12 July 2021
  • TIL: Elixir's match?/2 turns a match result into a predicate 26 June 2021
  • Iterating Over a Generic Sequence in Swift 03 March 2021
  • A look inside X-Plane’s massive multiplayer server 19 January 2021
  • Missing SwiftUI Preview Window in Xcode 13 December 2020
  • Creating a SwiftUI Window in an Objective-C AppKit App 13 December 2020
  • Warning: std::numeric_limits::min() > 0 20 August 2020
  • Default Capacity & Growth Rate of C++ std::vector 20 August 2020
  • Warning: __attribute__((const)) does not mean function purity 02 July 2020
  • The fastest way to iterate a Map’s values in Elixir 05 February 2020
  • Go ahead, call yourself a software engineer. 27 May 2019
  • No Size Fits All 08 May 2019
  • Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++ 29 January 2019
  • Data Normalization Matters 23 January 2019
  • Programming is Hard. 29 June 2018
  • The Worst Bug I Ever (Nearly) Shipped 25 June 2018
  • Git Cheat Sheet 09 March 2018
  • Esoteric Data Structures and Where to Find Them 02 November 2017
  • Speeding Up SVN Checkout for Large Repositories 08 June 2017
  • Migrating a Large SVN Repository to a New Server 07 June 2017
  • Notes on Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom 23 January 2017
  • Highlights from Robert C. Martin’s Clean Code 16 July 2014
  • Notes from Andre Alexandrescu’s Modern C++ Design 07 May 2014
  • Stupid Type Conversions in C++98 02 May 2014
  • C++ Pointers & References Cheat Sheet 30 April 2014

    • Cpp

  • Warning: std::numeric_limits::min() > 0 20 August 2020
  • Default Capacity & Growth Rate of C++ std::vector 20 August 2020
  • Warning: __attribute__((const)) does not mean function purity 02 July 2020
  • Benchmarks of Cache-Friendly Data Structures in C++ 29 January 2019
  • Conference Talk Playlists for C++ & Game Developers 15 March 2018
  • Esoteric Data Structures and Where to Find Them 02 November 2017
  • Notes from Andre Alexandrescu’s Modern C++ Design 07 May 2014
  • Stupid Type Conversions in C++98 02 May 2014
  • C++ Pointers & References Cheat Sheet 30 April 2014

    • Other Art

  • Sarah's Paintings 17 May 2015

    • Work

  • I Launched SleepEasy to Early Access Users aaaaand... 09 December 2023
  • Build vs. Buy for a Bootstrapped SaaS 25 November 2023
  • On MVPs and Cutting Scope 19 November 2023
  • A Prepostmortem: Why SleepEasy Will Fail 12 November 2023
  • Naming Products Is Hard 04 November 2023
  • A Scary Story 31 October 2023
  • Going Indie and Building in Public 30 October 2023
  • A Brief Guide to Hiring in Niche Languages Like Elixir 08 July 2023
  • What You Need to Know as a New Team Lead 08 January 2022
  • Building Better Habits 04 October 2018
  • The Worst Bug I Ever (Nearly) Shipped 25 June 2018
  • Hiring Software Developers 25 October 2017
  • “Invention is Drudgery” 18 April 2016

    • Game Development

  • A look inside X-Plane’s massive multiplayer server 19 January 2021
  • Conference Talk Playlists for C++ & Game Developers 15 March 2018
  • Notes on Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom 23 January 2017

    • Version Control

  • Git Cheat Sheet 09 March 2018
  • Speeding Up SVN Checkout for Large Repositories 08 June 2017
  • Migrating a Large SVN Repository to a New Server 07 June 2017

    • Travel Photography

  • Oakland, CA 08 April 2022
  • Rogers, AR 2021 03 October 2021
  • San Diego 2021 09 August 2021
  • San Diego, CA 23 January 2019
  • Sunrise over MCI 23 January 2018
  • Colorado 2017 12 August 2017

    • Family Photography

  • Christmas Cookies 14 December 2018
  • Sweet Boy 02 September 2018
  • Happy Baby 18 January 2018
  • Great Grandma 30 November 2017
  • Benjamin at 5 Months 03 September 2017

    • Conference Talks

  • Cat and Mouse: Challenges in Adversarial Web Scraping 29 August 2025
  • Don't Say the M Word 29 August 2024
  • More Testing, Fewer Tests 29 August 2024
  • Fantastic Hacks and Where to Find Them 06 November 2023
  • Rebuilding the Plane While It’s Still Flying 08 September 2023
  • Delightful Multiplayer Editing in Phoenix 31 August 2022
  • Architecting GenServers for Testability in Elixir 12 September 2021
  • Esoteric Data Structures and Where to Find Them 02 November 2017

    • Landscape Photography

  • Fall at Red Barn Farm 24 October 2021
  • Rogers, AR 2021 03 October 2021
  • San Diego 2021 09 August 2021
  • Sunrise over MCI 23 January 2018

    • Hardware

  • The world’s shortest review of the 15-inch 2018 MBP 23 July 2018

    • Elixir

  • Fixing Full Recompiles of Elixir Caused by Claude Code 11 March 2026
  • Cat and Mouse: Challenges in Adversarial Web Scraping 29 August 2025
  • Don't Say the M Word 29 August 2024
  • More Testing, Fewer Tests 29 August 2024
  • Fantastic Hacks and Where to Find Them 06 November 2023
  • Rebuilding the Plane While It’s Still Flying 08 September 2023
  • A microframework for backfill migrations in Elixir's Ecto 13 August 2023
  • Releasing CBTea, a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Journal 28 July 2023
  • A Brief Guide to Hiring in Niche Languages Like Elixir 08 July 2023
  • TIL about ExUnit's global assert_receive_timeout default config 01 June 2023
  • Delightful Multiplayer Editing in Phoenix 31 August 2022
  • Don’t Write Exploding Streams 25 April 2022
  • Refactoring Toward Algorithms in Elixir 14 April 2022
  • Taking Hashrocket’s “Ultimate Elixir CI” to the Next Level 12 April 2022
  • TIL about the differences between Elixir's boolean operators 12 April 2022
  • TIL: Elixir doctests support import: true 28 March 2022
  • TIL about default parameters in Elixir 17 February 2022
  • TIL the difference between Elixir URI's parse/1 and new/1 16 February 2022
  • TIL about the Elixir typedstruct package 08 January 2022
  • Shooting Yourself in the Foot with GenServers 02 December 2021
  • TIL about Elixir's System.unique_integer/1 15 November 2021
  • Enum.slide/3 is coming in Elixir 1.13 06 November 2021
  • TIL Elixir always runs tests within a test module synchronously 01 November 2021
  • Architecting GenServers for Testability in Elixir 12 September 2021
  • TIL Elixir's || supports nil fallback 17 August 2021
  • TIL Elixir's for comprehension supports filtering 12 July 2021
  • TIL: Elixir's match?/2 turns a match result into a predicate 26 June 2021
  • A look inside X-Plane’s massive multiplayer server 19 January 2021
  • The fastest way to iterate a Map’s values in Elixir 05 February 2020

    • Apple Development (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, AppKit, and UIKit)

  • Iterating Over a Generic Sequence in Swift 03 March 2021
  • Missing SwiftUI Preview Window in Xcode 13 December 2020
  • Creating a SwiftUI Window in an Objective-C AppKit App 13 December 2020

    • Today I Learned (TIL)

  • TIL about ExUnit's global assert_receive_timeout default config 01 June 2023
  • TIL: use copy() in the JavaScript console 01 March 2023
  • TIL Postgres NULL comparisons rules can bite you on WHERE … NOT IN 01 June 2022
  • TIL you can have type predicates in TypeScript 22 May 2022
  • TIL about the differences between Elixir's boolean operators 12 April 2022
  • TIL: Elixir doctests support import: true 28 March 2022
  • TIL about default parameters in Elixir 17 February 2022
  • TIL the difference between Elixir URI's parse/1 and new/1 16 February 2022
  • TIL about the Elixir typedstruct package 08 January 2022
  • TIL about Elixir's System.unique_integer/1 15 November 2021
  • TIL Elixir always runs tests within a test module synchronously 01 November 2021
  • TIL Elixir's || supports nil fallback 17 August 2021
  • TIL Elixir's for comprehension supports filtering 12 July 2021
  • TIL: Elixir's match?/2 turns a match result into a predicate 26 June 2021

    • Functional Programming

  • Fixing Full Recompiles of Elixir Caused by Claude Code 11 March 2026
  • Don’t Write Exploding Streams 25 April 2022
  • Taking Hashrocket’s “Ultimate Elixir CI” to the Next Level 12 April 2022
  • Write More Pure Functions 16 March 2022
  • Enum.slide/3 is coming in Elixir 1.13 06 November 2021
  • Architecting GenServers for Testability in Elixir 12 September 2021

    • TypeScript

  • TIL you can have type predicates in TypeScript 22 May 2022

    • Databases

  • A microframework for backfill migrations in Elixir's Ecto 13 August 2023
  • TIL Postgres NULL comparisons rules can bite you on WHERE … NOT IN 01 June 2022

    • JavaScript

  • TIL: use copy() in the JavaScript console 01 March 2023

    • Entrepreneurship

  • Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024 21 January 2024
  • Acquisition Channel Determines Pricing (And Product) 07 January 2024
  • Making Web Scraping Super Reliable 31 December 2023
  • Rapid Unscheduled Learning 17 December 2023
  • I Launched SleepEasy to Early Access Users aaaaand... 09 December 2023
  • Build vs. Buy for a Bootstrapped SaaS 25 November 2023
  • On MVPs and Cutting Scope 19 November 2023
  • A Prepostmortem: Why SleepEasy Will Fail 12 November 2023
  • Going Indie and Building in Public 30 October 2023
  • A Brief Guide to Hiring in Niche Languages Like Elixir 08 July 2023

    • CBTea

  • Releasing CBTea, a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Journal 28 July 2023

    • Build in Public

  • Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024 21 January 2024
  • Acquisition Channel Determines Pricing (And Product) 07 January 2024
  • Making Web Scraping Super Reliable 31 December 2023
  • Rapid Unscheduled Learning 17 December 2023
  • I Launched SleepEasy to Early Access Users aaaaand... 09 December 2023
  • Build vs. Buy for a Bootstrapped SaaS 25 November 2023
  • On MVPs and Cutting Scope 19 November 2023
  • A Prepostmortem: Why SleepEasy Will Fail 12 November 2023
  • Naming Products Is Hard 04 November 2023
  • A Scary Story 31 October 2023
  • Going Indie and Building in Public 30 October 2023