Dystopian Code Review
This is the final Skill Issue of the year. Thanks y'all for reading. I'll be back at it on Jan 9th. In between now and then I'll be enjoying some time with...
Introspection
I'm really tempted to complete each day of the Advent of Code this year in a different language, but I don't really have twelve languages that I'm proficient...
Jared Is Not a Serious Programmer
I fell behind on my Skill Issues due to business at work. Hopefully this is a fun one to make it up to everyone. A Deeply Unserious Take This week my...
Wytchcraft
This week and into next I'm on a little getaway. It's not a full break from work, though I am working a bit less this week. I'm off in coastal cabin with Amy...
Abyssal, Cosmic, Byzantine
Last week's Skill Issue was missing because I was too busy. We've had a couple folks depart Super Good and there was a bit of reshuffling. This has me...
jj
The surf has been great this week. It’s been so good that I’ve been seeing shots of local spots on r/surfing. Earlier this week I scoped out a slightly more...
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Note: I wrote this on Friday, but for some reason it failed to send it out. Tomorrow, the surf is going to get really good around here. To the subscribers...
Burg.rb
I got a new bike today. If you follow me on Mastodon you’ll probably be treated to some pictures from my rides over the next little bit. I've been riding a...
Coup d'état
It's been a fun week. I was in Vancouver overnight to see a band whose name I'm hesitant to put in my newsletter. Their lead singer is 70 and (suprisingly)...
Fragmented
I already said this elsewhere, but writing this week's Skill Issue is exceptionally difficult. I have some very particular feelings about what's happening...
Complicated
Today's Skill Issue contains no whimsy. Sorry. When I started writing it, the discourse (I hate using that phrase) was focused on DHH's latest round of...
Gone Surfing
If you’re reading around the time it went out, I’m probably in the ocean, surfing. I always sneak in one last surfing/camping trip right after Labour Day....
"Useless Religion"
Welcome to the new folks that subscribed thanks to the Dead Code 50th episode giveaway! To those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, you should...
Fifty Episodes of Dead Code
I’ve been doing a bit more writing than usual. I’ve put out three blog posts in the past few weeks, ending a period of (blog) inactivity. I won’t promise...
Go Forth and multiply
After interviewing Dave Gauer of ratfactor.com for an upcoming episode for the pod, I was intrigued by what he'd said about a programming language called...
You can't spell "Zeitwerk" without "twerk"
I've been slacking on the blogging. I've been writing here a bit, but until this week I hadn't put out a single blog post in 2025. I fixed that, but only...
IO Untethered
A while back, I wrote about how we were working on updating Solidus's order updating code to remove manipulative queries, making it possible to simulate...
Grug Brained
I've been writing a lot more code than usual over the last little while, at least outside of the time I've spent camping and surfing. Unfortunately, I can't...
ruby.wasm
Did you know that it's really easy to run Ruby in the browser? The official Ruby GitHub org hosts ruby.wasm, a collection of useful WASM Ruby builds. By...
What if?
I sometimes think about what I'd do if I had to rebuild Solidus from scratch. What technologies would I use? What would the architecture look like? I...
