Why I prefer rST to markdown
I will never stop dying on this hill
My patented Miracle Tonic would have prevented the CrowdStrike meltdown
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Keep perfecting your config
Make your tools work better for you.
Logic for Programmers now in early access!
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises,...
Solving a math problem with planner programming
More opportunities to mess with exotic technology
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
Why x^2 isn't always x*x.
Logic for Programmers Update
I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init] [update]) because I have a self-imposed deadline of mid-July,...
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here. Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper...
Nondeterminism in Formal Specification
Just an unordered collections of thoughts on this. In programming languages, nondeterminism tends to come from randomness, concurrency, or external forces...
I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong
It's not about what's better, it's about what's less worse.
NoCode Will Not Bring Computing to the Masses
NoCode, scripting vs applications, and software marketplaces
What I look for in empirical software papers
Oh God it's already Thursday
Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts
On the value of "scavenging" for paradigm adoption
"Integration tests" are just vibes
New blog post, and some thoughts on what makes an integration test an "integration" test.
"Testing can show the presence of bugs but not the absence"
An analysis of the ramifications.
What makes concurrency so hard?
Is it something about human brains, or something about the problem domain?
Some notes on for loops
Experts can learn a lot by looking at the basics.
Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors?
A history that will satisfy nobody.
What if the spec doesn't match the code?
Address people's biggest concern about formal methods
What Mob Programming is Bad At
Bulldozers vs Lightning Bolts