Hostile software: In this case, Apple Preview
November 8th, 2023 • Read…
2023 >
Hostile software
rust-petname 2.0.0-beta.2
September 28th, 2023 • Read…
Experimenting with Parcel for allenap.me
August 27th, 2023 • Read…
ISO-8601 and DATETIME in SQLite: Or: how SQLite silently treats them differently
August 21st, 2023 • Read…
Adding a column with REFERENCES in SQLite 3: Trickier than it could be; error messages appear contradictory
August 21st, 2023 • Read…
«Putting the “You” in CPU»: What exactly happens when you run a program on your computer?
August 14th, 2023 • Read…
RAM is mapped into the address space
August 14th, 2023 • Read…
The 2023 revamp of allenap.me: Looks like nothing has happened in 5 years
August 12th, 2023 • Read…
2018 >
Rewriting allenap.me in Elm
May 12th, 2018 • Read…
2017 >
flock(2) behaviour on macOS and Linux: Note to self: flock is simple, but not as simple as you think
July 3rd, 2017 • Read…
Petname library in Rust
June 20th, 2017 • Read…
The way to run tests quickly (in MAAS): Go parallel and deal with the mess for big wins
April 18th, 2017 • Read…
The importance of running tests quickly: Here, MAAS, and everywhere
February 23rd, 2017 • Read…
2016 >
Bazaar repositories for fun/profit/shenanigans: Save time and disk with Bazaar’s shared repositories
December 9th, 2016 • Read…
sets versus lists: In Python, sets are faster than lists
April 21st, 2016 • Read…
Porting MAAS to Python 3: The (More) Technical Bits
February 16th, 2016 • Read…
Porting MAAS to Python 3
February 16th, 2016 • Read…
2015 >
Post-commit hooks in MAAS: How to not change the world from inside a transaction
August 31st, 2015 • Read…
Transactions in MAAS: … and how Django gets it so wrong
August 23rd, 2015 • Read…
Introduction to blocking and non-blocking code in MAAS
August 16th, 2015 • Read…
WTF is Dart?: Article for Norfolk Tech Journal, 2015-01-12
July 29th, 2015 • Read…
South, South 2, and Django Migrations
May 12th, 2015 • Read…
2014 >
Fewer sudo password prompts
August 7th, 2014 • Read…
2013 >
Preparing for Python 3 in MAAS
November 20th, 2013 • Read…
Even Google can’t write shell scripts
November 7th, 2013 • Read…
python-liblockfile
November 2nd, 2013 • Read…
Protocol buffers for logging
November 1st, 2013 • Read…
fsync the parent directory when fsyncing a new file
November 1st, 2013 • Read…
Change directory to a Go package, with tab completion: In bash
August 13th, 2013 • Read…
Lagrange points: A video by Sixty Symbols
June 15th, 2013 • Read…
Workaround for uploading files to MAAS
June 5th, 2013 • Read…
2010 >
Tagging installed Python libraries: A short script to alleviate the pain
October 5th, 2010 • Read…
Reply to “Downstream bug reports – fail!”
April 30th, 2010 • Read…