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Technically a Blog: the Gay Agenda License, messing with electronics, silly YAML in Rust, and sketchy ethics

November 1, 2024

Hello and happy Friday! This month I have four blog posts for you. My other projects are moving along slowly, so no real updates on that front. I'd love to...

ntietz.com: on-call, content-driven development, Rust web development

October 4, 2024

Hello and happy Friday! When you read this, I might be in a medical procedure or recovering from it. It's a scientifically proven fact (that I made up just...

ntietz.com: Gleam, Hurl, design docs, and more

September 6, 2024

Hello and happy Friday! I made it to Santa Cruz for !!con and gave my talk! It went well, and I'm really glad to have made it out there. A recording of it...

ntietz.com: seven years, a fractal made of wood, and learning to rest

August 2, 2024

Hello and happy Friday! The end of this month is going to bring something really exciting: !!con! It's a conference about the joy, excitement, and surprise...

ntietz.com: blogging affirmations, CRUD apps, a fun bug, and more

July 5, 2024

Hello, and happy Friday! This last month has continued to be rough (pain, fatigue). I've kept up the writing! I hope you enjoy the posts, and I'd love to...

ntietz.com: getting buy-in, Rust footguns, ergonomics, and more

June 7, 2024

Hello, and happy Friday! This last month has been rough for me. I'll spare the details, but I've been sick a lot and it's not clear what's going on. That's...

ntietz.com: Hot takes about Firefox and logging, and gaining some new perspective (literally)

May 3, 2024

Sorry for the double email. A previous bad revision of this email went out. I'm coming out of a day of sickness, and messed up saves, so key edits were...

ntietz.com: Hot takes about Firefox and logging, and gaining some new perspective (literally)

May 3, 2024

Hello, and happy Friday! I almost didn't get this out today because I was sick, but I'm feeling much better now so this is going to squeak out just before my...

ntietz.com: "Compressing" with pi, and my book

April 5, 2024

Hello and happy Friday! This month I kept busy with a few blog posts and some personal project work. I also, uh, I guess I published a book! And I still have...

Nicole's February blogs and a cool cryptography demo

March 1, 2024

Hello and happy Friday! This month I had my usual blogging, and had a few other exciting things happen—a podcast appearance and wrapping up a demo I've been...

Nicole's January blogs, RSA attack, Heart language

February 2, 2024

Hello and happy Friday! This month I kept busy with blog posts and finished up one of my projects, implementing the Bleichenbacher attack on RSA. I also...

ntietz.com: December blogs, Hurl, research, and crypto(graphy)

January 5, 2024

Hello, happy Friday, and happy new year! This month I kept busy with a few more blog posts than usual. I don't love the dark months, but it was a very...

ntietz.com: Accessibility, Rust, a digital vigil, and idle engineers

December 1, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! This month I kept busy with a few blog posts, and did some math and programming. I always love hearing from readers, so reply to this...

ntietz.com blog: October's posts, chess, ethics, and proofs

November 3, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! This month has been a good writing month, but for things outside of writing it has been slow, with side quests. Here are the posts...

ntietz.com blog: October plans

October 6, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! Since the last newsletter, I've put up five posts. Here are those, then I'll talk about what I'm working on. OpenAI fixed their...

ntietz.com blog: code formatter, what's good enough, and Copilot

September 1, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! Since the last newsletter went out, I decreased the cadence from weekly to monthly; if you have feedback on this change, please reply...

ntietz.com blog: Weird git hash viz, and reading fiction

August 11, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! This week I published two blog posts. The first, A few weird ways of displaying git hashes, does exactly what it says on the tin. I...

ntietz.com blog: "Throw away your first draft of your code"

August 4, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! Here's this week's post if you missed it: Throw away your first draft of your code. It's about what it says on the tin, and it's from...

ntietz.com blog: "Recovering from a lost disk"

July 28, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! Here's this week's post if you missed it: Recovering from a lost disk: how I setup, backup, and restore dev machines. It's about what...

ntietz.com blog: "Writing Hurl's grammar, twice" and making lemonade out of life

July 21, 2023

Hello and happy Friday! Here's this week's post if you missed it: Writing Hurl's grammar, twice. It's about how I wrote the grammar for my definitely-very-...