Loose-Leaf Is Not Coming Back
No one has to like the paperclip factory, but pretending the world is going back to loose-leaf isn’t a strategy.
Serve a home server through a VPS with WireGuard and nginx
I have a rack of servers in my garage, so I would rather not pay a host for CPU and disk I already own. A WireGuard tunnel and one small VPS put a site on those machines at a public hostname.
Raku Is the Most Advanced Scripting Language
Grammars, junctions, lazy infinite lists, user-defined operators, a metaobject protocol you can call at runtime, and operators spelled with Unicode. Here are a lot of examples, normal and exotic. I ran every one of them.
LearnRaku.dev is live
I just released LearnRaku.dev into production. It is an interactive, browser-based trainer for learning Raku. You get an exercise, a failing spec, and an editor. You write code until the spec…
Dogfooding My Own Raku MVC Web Framework
A few weeks ago I blog'd about shipping behave.dev , the first Raku app I ever put into production. This blog post is an even bigger deal to me personally. The site you are reading right now,...
Shipping My First Raku App
Shipping My First Raku App: behave.dev I just released behave.dev into production. It's the homepage for BDD::Behave , my behavior-driven testing framework for Raku. It's the first Raku application...
Flying at Peeler Park, May 2nd, 2026
Flying at Peeler Park, May 2nd, 2026
Blackjack in Clojure
I wrote Blackjack in Clojure.
The anti-AI people are angry again
I’m seeing a hilarious new time-wasting trend emerging: software engineers are making "naughty lists" of software "tainted" by AI/LLM involvement, seemingly to shame authors who use AI-assisted...
Blackjack for VSCode
I wrote an extension to play the classic game of Blackjack inside VS Code.