Programming Blogs

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• extm3u.pl — Tired of handcrafting playlists? I made extm3u.pl to generate extended .m3u playlists from a folder and print to stdout
• sanity.pl — Sick of escaping long filenames in FTP? I made sanity.pl to rename files to a sane name, replacing spaces with underscor
• navilink.pl — Need an easy way to move waypoints and tracks from a Locosys GPS? I walk through installing and using navilink.pl, the P
• Fortunes — Love seeing a new quote when you open a terminal? I've packaged a set of fortune cookies for the unix fortune program th
• pam_require — Want to lock down SSH to a specific group or user? In this post I introduce pam_require, a tiny PAM account module for L
• VideoDB — Need a simple way to manage your personal video collection? In this post I walk through VideoDB, a lightweight personal
• File Icons — Need consistent file icons for your app? I put together a community file icon collection and packaged it as fileicons.zi
• Giraffe — Tired of cluttered calendars at conferences? This post covers Giraffe, my personal conference schedule tool for Android.
• Crocofile — Tired of sending large client files over email? I walk you through Crocofile, a simple PHP script to upload and download
• DokuWiki — Want a simple wiki without a database? Here I explain why DokuWiki fits small companies, how plain text pages keep data
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• How to Memorize Programming Languages — Tired of forgetting syntax across languages? This 5-minute read on how to memorize programming languages uses Art of Mem
• You Have to Type It Out — Typing out every example is how I actually learn. While prepping a new chapter of The Rust Programming Language I walked
• The soft power of JavaScript — Soft power of JavaScript at work: how big tech, conferences, and influencer economics push thing.js into every stack. My
• Where do I code from here? — Where do I code from here? Frontend web development as we know it feels unsustainable for many teams, so I'm planning a
• Bootstrapping your new game project — I share a simple script I wrote to bootstrap a new MonoGame project on Linux so you can stop worrying about setup and ge
• Learning Go — Learning Go programming through hands-on building. Practical maker's journey from syntax struggles to productive simplic