Things I Like

These are things I like and / or find useful.

stuff

• the Gleam programming language

• the Kotlin programming language

• the Zig programming language

• the Zed editor

• the Alacritty terminal emulator

• the yabai window manager

• the note-taking app Obsidian

blog posts

• parse, don't validate

• all you need is data and functions

• locality of behavior

• the 'I' in LLM stands for intelligence

• chicken

• the grug brained developer

• why Kotlin is better than whatever dumb language you're using

• how I experience the web today

• Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things

• the techno-optimist manifesto

• the Java way

• a brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages

• functional core, imperative shell