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2023
November 10
Trading 1.4ms for sharper fonts and better colors
Chroma subsampling is fun.
June 11
macOS font rendering
Miscellaneous notes and details on how Apple’s desktop operating system gets those letters to your eyeballs.
April 20
An overview of Nix in practice
An surface-level exploration of Nix as a technology, and what I find most useful about it.
February 15
Arc, and what it tells us about the web
2022
September 21
iPhone 14 Pro subtleties
A few scattered thoughts on the new iPhone after about a week of use.
2021
August 9
Learn some basic Rust by trying to cache with a HashMap
As a Rust novice gradually familiarizing myself with the borrow checker, I wanted to write about a recent hurdle I encountered. I feel like this case study is particularly realistic and could be illuminating for beginners.
June 28
After 4 weeks with the Apple M1
April 19
Upgrading to an SSD for the first time
March 2
Understanding a simple string algorithm in Haskell
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of a Haskell function.
2020
March 28
Functionally chaotic
Thoughts of nontrivial program design in pure, functional Scala.
2019
December 29
6 years
Some self-reflection on programming so far.
August 3
Setting up a Virtual Private Network