Lettera: A Refined Markdown Document Editor

Shiny Frog's new Markdown editor for macOS goes into beta today. It's like Bear, but for any file or folder on your computer. I've been lucky enough to help build it.

Retelling Stories with Commit Diffs in My Head

Successful code changes where I don’t feel a lot of friction may boil down to being able to retell a story of small changes here and there in my head.

Swift Blog Carnival Roundup: Tiny Languages

Recap of the very first Swift Blog Carnival on the topic of Tiny Languages: six posts on task runners, DSLs, parsers, symbolic math, and grammar tools.

CLI for Your Notes in The Archive – Automated Zettelkasten (Usage) for Programmers

Exposing your notes with a CLI can help LLM’s and you both to discover connections. The tool I wrote for The Archive essentially offers a YAML API for my Zettelkasten.

Counter Drift and Entropy with Kaizen

The answer to entropy in things we build, of getting worse over time and not better, always has been to stay vigilant and impose order, even as the order changes.

Swift Blog Carnival: Tiny Languages

The Swift Blog Carnival topic for April is open; it is about Tiny Languages. Read what a blog carnival is, why you should care, and how to participate!

Emacs Mistakes and Misconceptions That Held Me Back in 2019

When I started to use Emacs, I was just an innocent, overwhelmed computer programmer searching for a way to manage tasks and projects. Look where this got me.