August 30: New: The Facts Don't Matter.

August 18: New: Stop writing C, and The Unix world needs to get its shit together.

August 17: New: Specifications are contravariant.

August 14: New:

• Snakes.
• Why I don't believe in pure functional programming anymore.

August 12: I've posted my review of Rust.

August 8:

• I found out about the <details> and <summary> elements and replaced <expand-note> with them!

• I found out the real solution to the monospace font size problem: font-family: monospace, monospace! Thanks to normalize.css!

• I finally deleted the old crappy novels. I really did it. They're gone. I still reference The Pygon Hybrid in one of the storytelling philosophy articles, but in a way that makes sense without the full text still being available.

August 7: I've done a ton of editing old articles of storytelling and my Mass Effect review, and posted a new short: A couple of garbage, under-criticized tropes.

August 4: Major work on notifications! You can now subscribe to articles, to get notified of new top-level comments, and to notifications on new articles.

August 2: New faction analysis: the Anarchist Left.

July 27: New: Dynamic typing is a sin. Been working on that for a while.

And get this: I implemented comment autosaving! It saves in-progress comments every time you make a change.

July 26: New: Including library code in stack traces and Stop double-counting notifs.

I have a memory of using something recently where my first suggestion in the stack trace article was used, but I can't remember what it was. It apparently wasn't Julia or Rust.

July 25: Added Why do all the dynamic languages catch name errors by default?. Used to be only on dev.to, but I decided it was worthy of a spot here.

July 24: Syntax highlighting support in code blocks in here! Both articles and comments. Courtesy of Pygments. Enjoy.

July 22: New: Existing bigotry analysis: sexism.

July 20: New: Confessions of a keyboard warrior.

July 19: I've redone my programming language reviews in a new style that's more "topic by topic" than "good things minus bad things". I don't use colored headings anymore because I think that was kind of limiting me to a one-sided tone within each section, and I use headings hierarchically now instead of using them to indicate magnitude (I think there are SEO benefits).

I also scrapped the article where I laid out a baseline for language reviews, since I don't think that makes much sense with the new style.

I also fixed a minor bug that would cause the "you'll receive a confirmation email about your account creation" message to appear when logging in while posting a comment. And the auth popup can now show specific error messages like "that name is claimed by a registered user" instead of always "invalid credentials".

I also unlinked the Uberpython article. It's a good article, but when redoing my Go review I decided I had a lot more points to make about the error handling, so I ended up going through it myself. And Uberpython is a Wordpress site, yuck.

Finally, I enabled the strikethrough plugin on the mistune markdown processor, so you can now use ~~text~~.

July 17: New articles:

• Stop freaking out about self-promotion

• What goes into a website?

July 14: New rant: Build systems are a scourge.

July 10: Added a link in the software index to this Uberpython article as my argument for exceptions over error returns.

July 7: Added Breadth-first versus depth-first autocompletion.

July 5: Added Dialog practice: best and worst lines in Star Wars.

July 3: Added FreeBSD source code is bullshit.