Don’t guess my language
Summary

The Accept-Language header exists for a reason

Date2025-05-20
#genderUX (2015)
Summary

How to handle gender data on forms, if you have to

Date2025-02-06
Why is Git autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Summary

A history of changing option types and silly consequences

Date2025-01-20
telo misikeke
Summary

ilo sitelen tawa toki pona – a toki pona grammar checker

Date2024-10-25
git – ours vs theirs
Summary

Cheat sheet to demystify git terminology: What’s ‘ours’, what’s ‘theirs’? The answer might surprise you.

Date2024-08-27
CSVs are kinda bad. DSVs are kinda good.
Summary

DSVs seem interesting, but using the Symbol for Record Separator instead of the Record Separator itself seems criminal.

Date2024-08-14
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Summary

Jordan Eldredge’s exploration yields some unlikely finds

Date2024-07-26
FFV1 video format
Summary

An open format for lossless video encoding

Date2024-06-03
TIL: What's the point in adding a new line to the end of a file?
Summary

By UNIX definition, a text file is a series of lines, and a line is any characters followed by a newline character. Without the newline, it’s not a text file.

Date2024-03-29
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Summary

A relatively accessible and thoroughly enjoyable new book by Judith Butler on the panic surrounding ‘gender ideology’

Date2024-03-27
Symbols for Legacy Computing
Summary

These charming Unicode characters are a throwback to the early days of computing, featuring many block drawing characters and even stick figures.

Date2024-03-13
That’s a lot of YAML
Summary

There’s a lot of YAML haters out there

Date2023-09-28
On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git
Summary

A choose-your-own-adventure-style resource to guide you out of many of Git‘s sticky situations.

Date2021-01-01