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Here you can find all my previous posts:

Designing Boring Software with Functional Programming - Part 1 - August 5, 2024
Haskell is Not A Whitepaper Language - April 29, 2024
Keep Effects at the Edges - April 15, 2024
On Over-Engineering in Software Development - February 10, 2024
Extensible Enums in Haskell - January 13, 2024
A (mostly) Practical Guide to Functional Programming (in Javascript) Part 6 - November 17, 2018
Static Type Checkers for Dynamic Programmers - October 29, 2018
What Are Promises Good For? - October 15, 2018
A Haskell Failure Story - August 3, 2018
Programming: A Delectation of Process and Form - December 27, 2017
Property Based Testing With Javascript - November 28, 2017
A (mostly) Practical Guide to Functional Programming (in Javascript) Part 5 - November 20, 2017
Best Worst Practices - September 17, 2017
Code Matters to Stakeholders - July 28, 2017
A (mostly) Practical Guide to Functional Programming (in Javascript) Part 4 - June 23, 2017
A (mostly) Practical Guide to Functional Programming (in Javascript) Part 3 - May 13, 2017
How to use PostgreSQL as a GraphQL backend - April 26, 2017
A (mostly) Practical Guide to Functional Programming (in Javascript) Part 2 - November 1, 2016
A (mostly) Practical Guide to Functional Programming (in Javascript) Part 1 - October 30, 2016
\[SPOILERS\] The Force Awakens - December 22, 2015
The Black Man Stopped Me - September 17, 2015
Introduction to Procedural Algorithms - June 24, 2015
Mozilla Circus and asyncio - August 21, 2014
Python and Canvas2D with Brython - May 24, 2014
Static Generators - May 23, 2014
Defining Function Arguments in Hy - April 22, 2013
Hy is a Lisp on Python - April 19, 2013
The Emacs Browser - March 25, 2013
Dick Jokes Considered Harmful - March 21, 2013
My New Policy on Misogyny - March 21, 2013
ATDT Pre-Alpha Progress Update 1 - March 13, 2013
SDL and Modern C++: Images - February 21, 2013
Game Frameworks for the PC - January 30, 2013
What Makes A Game Art? - January 25, 2013
New Year, New Look - January 1, 2013
I Can't Play Diablo 3 So I'm Going to Make a Game - May 1, 2012
Why Is The Future Not Here Yet? - February 16, 2012
Teaching Kids to Code - January 11, 2012
It works! - December 4, 2011
Strict Types - November 9, 2011
Parenscript Is Awesome - July 19, 2011
Stopping To Observe the Code - June 30, 2011
Follow Up With Ben: Part 1 - June 6, 2011
An Open Letter to Ben Mueller-Heaslip - June 4, 2011
You Might Be a Data Scientist... - May 25, 2011
Run Length Encoding in Lisp - May 23, 2011
Aspergers and Programming - May 12, 2011
Katamari Coding - March 30, 2011
Software As A Service - March 15, 2011
Secrets Do Not Keep You Safe - December 8, 2010
My Processor or My Guitar? - October 20, 2010
Optimization Techniques: Divide and Conquer - October 12, 2010
Can You Make This Toy Python Program Faster? - October 10, 2010
Node.js is Infecting Everything - October 5, 2010
Minecraft - September 27, 2010
Programmers and Dogma - September 25, 2010
Code Quarterly Challenge: Parsing with Python 1 - September 16, 2010
Parsing with Python Coroutines: Fail - September 13, 2010
Parsing with Co-routines: Help Me Wrap My Head Around This - September 3, 2010
Python by Example: Sort - August 13, 2010
Higher Education Bubble - August 8, 2010
Re-Thinking the Web Framework - July 28, 2010
Open for Business - July 22, 2010
Mature Student? Hope you like Humanities and Social Sciences - July 21, 2010
Limbo Game Review - July 21, 2010
Pylons and JSON-RPC 2.0 - July 13, 2010
Wishful Thinking Will Not Save the University of California - July 12, 2010
The Beauty of RPC - July 4, 2010
Pylons JSON-RPC Now on BitBucket - June 30, 2010
On Manly Moustaches - June 30, 2010
Pylons JSON-RPC Controller Update - June 29, 2010
G20: A Perfect Storm - June 28, 2010
Pylons, Pyjamas, and JSON-RPC - June 22, 2010
Pylons JSON-RPC Controller - June 22, 2010
Picross3D - June 11, 2010
Program Outdoors - May 31, 2010
Das Keyboard: Ich Liebe Diche - May 28, 2010
Sleep is Death: Initial Reactions, Thoughts, and Ideas - April 22, 2010
Initial Thoughts on Developing Games with Lisp - April 18, 2010
Bridging the Gap Between Philomaths and Academics - April 12, 2010
Trouble in the Garden of Atheism - March 31, 2010
Digital: A BBS Love Story - March 19, 2010
A Simple GM Tool: A Die Roller - January 27, 2010
Programmer Competency Matrix - January 12, 2010
I Deleted My Facebook Account - December 17, 2009
On NaNoWriMo - December 6, 2009
Why I Like Lisp - December 1, 2009
Backwards Compatibility: Long Live Python 2.xx! - November 5, 2009
Roleplaying on the Wave: Swords and Wizardry Part 1 - November 4, 2009
The Case Against Transparency - October 23, 2009
Python Style Tip: Drop in Types - September 23, 2009
Skirmisher Update - Importing a Complete Database! - August 27, 2009
Skirmisher: A D&D Miniatures Table Top Utility - August 12, 2009
The Best Explanation of Monads I've Seen - July 30, 2009
Pub Comics - Pigeon - June 9, 2009
A Short List of Things That Bother Me About Python - May 28, 2009
Meme or Gene: Is the Belief in Religion an Evolutionary Trait? - May 25, 2009
Hacking the Canadian Parliament - April 22, 2009
Zed Shaw's Proposed ArgParse API - April 10, 2009
Getting Started in Open Source: A Guide to Getting Involved for Newbies - April 7, 2009
Watching the Watchmen - March 6, 2009
Web Based IDEs - February 25, 2009
Easy Fractal Music - February 19, 2009
TracShell: Trac Command Line Shell Interface - February 11, 2009
My Road to Lisp - February 9, 2009
Lazy Geeks Rejoice: Email Mom Without the Effort of Emailing Mom - February 6, 2009
Goodbye Canadian Coalition Government? - January 28, 2009
Why Does Lisp Have a Problem? - January 25, 2009
How Being Green Became a Solpsism - January 12, 2009
Small Light and Fast Web Applications Using WSGI - January 9, 2009
Expression in Code - December 10, 2008
I Have an iPhone - December 9, 2008
I'm Not a Conservative and I'm Against the Coalition - December 5, 2008
Partisan Politics Sneak into Canada - November 29, 2008
Trying a New Look - November 25, 2008
Humans are Clumsy - November 21, 2008
Seeking Enlightenment in a Holy War Part 2 - November 19, 2008
Seeking Enlightenment in a Holy War - November 12, 2008
The Internet was not Built Wrong - October 29, 2008
Bambi Meets Godzilla: How Much Does Hype Matter? - October 20, 2008
Canadian Election 2008 - October 14, 2008
Hasty Praise for Nintendo DSi? - October 8, 2008
Nintendo DSi Finally Gets It Right - October 3, 2008
Using Facebook to Detect Narcissists - September 23, 2008
Google Chrome - September 5, 2008
Doctor Horrible has Horrible Bandwidth Problems - July 15, 2008
Going to Japan - June 26, 2008
Pirating Games - June 17, 2008
Mars Now! - June 3, 2008
PHP is Obsolete - May 12, 2008
Gobo Linux - May 7, 2008
Not Happy with Hardy - May 6, 2008
Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1 - April 30, 2008
A Technical Summary of Google App Engine - April 25, 2008
Autostitch - April 16, 2008
Google App Engine: A New Sustainable Hosting Model? - April 14, 2008
Reznor is Right and It Has Been a Long Time Coming - March 14, 2008
An Easy Way to Test Drive Linux - March 13, 2008
Cyber Goggles Are Almost Here - March 4, 2008
Does Prejudice Affect the Choices of Developers? - February 26, 2008
Arch Linux: When you know exactly what you want (and don't need all the fluff). - February 7, 2008
Perl6 is Still Alive - January 21, 2008
Their Code Sucks - January 16, 2008
Hello 2008 - January 16, 2008
I Didn't Start the Bubble - December 5, 2007
Facebook Invades Privacy - December 3, 2007
Facebook Must Stop Monetizing on Invading Privacy - November 21, 2007
Canadians are Finally Understanding the Internet - November 12, 2007
Knight News Challenge: Final Round - October 23, 2007
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Review - October 22, 2007
Amazon EC2 enters Open Beta - October 17, 2007
Message Queuing - October 16, 2007
Set A Background Colour on Your Web Pages - October 11, 2007
Logging for your Django Apps - October 10, 2007
Accessibility is Accessible - August 30, 2007
Geek Porn in Job Postings - August 15, 2007
Over Thinking Usability - August 7, 2007
Crooked Little Vein - August 2, 2007
Trouble Recruiting Talented Programmers? Make Sure You Know What You're Talking About. - July 24, 2007
Transformers is Actually Okay - July 23, 2007
New Web Metric Likely to be Inaccurate - July 9, 2007
Your Business Could Be Missing Opportunity - July 5, 2007
Open Source Software's Bad Reputation is Bunk - June 28, 2007
3D Scanner Using Lego and Milk - June 21, 2007
Desktop Window Managers Turn Computing into Target Practice - June 20, 2007
Running a Startup is Really Hard - June 19, 2007
Live from True Colors - June 19, 2007
Your Identity Doesn't Belong to You - June 18, 2007
Lobbyists Clear House in Canada - June 12, 2007
LOLCODE. I has it. - June 8, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth for the IFPI - June 5, 2007
Google Gears follows the steps of Adobe Apollo and Joyent Slingshot - May 31, 2007
RESTful Representations for Django Views - May 29, 2007
Essays - May 27, 2007
Barcamp Toronto 2007 - May 27, 2007
Why Dell and Purolator Suck - May 15, 2007
Live Ink Improves Readability - May 11, 2007
Will Computers Make Criminals of Us All? - May 8, 2007
Boredom as a Motivating Factor in Open Source Development - May 7, 2007
A Geographic Representation of the Internet (roughly) - May 2, 2007
Does Anyone Understand the Medium? - April 26, 2007
Bob Lefsetz Gets It - April 26, 2007
Upgraded to Feisty Fawn - April 23, 2007
Second Life to Open Source Server - April 19, 2007
Vimperator: Firefox with vim Key Bindings - April 17, 2007
Getting More Women into Computer Science - April 17, 2007
More Mouseless Productivity - April 9, 2007
Media People Don't Get It - April 4, 2007
Adobe: Web Development for Dummies - March 28, 2007
Mac vs. PC vs. Linux - March 26, 2007
Ditch Your Mouse and Enhance Your Productivity - March 26, 2007
Joyent Slingshot: Apollo for Rails - March 23, 2007
Mac vs. PC: A Misconception - March 21, 2007
Highrise: Is 37signals Getting Lazy? - March 20, 2007
Adobe Apollo: First Impressions - March 20, 2007
No Non-sense Unit Testing with Nose for Python - March 19, 2007
What Happened to Google's Infamous Cookie? - March 15, 2007
Useless Error Messages are a Common Practice - March 12, 2007
La Fonera: the Anti-Social Router - March 11, 2007
Wasted Federal Funding for the TTC - March 7, 2007
More on the Subjectivity of Design - March 5, 2007
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.1.2 - March 3, 2007
Will the New Ning Humble the Web 2.0 Bubble? - February 28, 2007
Oh Bev Oda - February 28, 2007
Graffiti is a Crime - February 28, 2007
Web 2.0 Flirts with the Desktop - February 27, 2007
Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network - February 27, 2007
Waiting for River of Gods - February 26, 2007
Design isn't What It Looks Like - February 23, 2007
Software as a Service isn't Killing any Markets - February 22, 2007
Be Framework Agnostic - February 22, 2007
Better Command-line Scripts with Optparse - February 20, 2007
Reasons to Hire Someone with a Mohawk - February 19, 2007
TTC: The Older Way - February 15, 2007
Rapid Development using YUI Toolkit - February 8, 2007