Experiment with Tailwind CSS

Too low-level for what I need?

An embarrassing bug

rust-petname 2.0.0 released

Google Drive keeps trash bin stocked

A note to myself for when I see this again

Hostile software

In this case, Apple Preview

rust-petname 2.0.0-beta.2

Experimenting with Parcel for allenap.me

ISO-8601 and DATETIME in SQLite

Or: how SQLite silently treats them differently

Adding a column with REFERENCES in SQLite 3

Trickier than it could be; error messages appear contradictory

«Putting the “You” in CPU»

What exactly happens when you run a program on your computer?

RAM is mapped into the address space

The 2023 revamp of allenap.me

Looks like nothing has happened in 5 years

Rewriting allenap.me in Elm

flock(2) behaviour on macOS and Linux

Note to self: flock is simple, but not as simple as you think

Petname library in Rust

The way to run tests quickly (in MAAS)

Go parallel and deal with the mess for big wins

The importance of running tests quickly

Here, MAAS, and everywhere

Bazaar repositories for fun/profit/shenanigans

Save time and disk with Bazaar’s shared repositories

sets versus lists

In Python, sets are faster than lists

Porting MAAS to Python 3: The (More) Technical Bits

Porting MAAS to Python 3

Post-commit hooks in MAAS

How to not change the world from inside a transaction

Transactions in MAAS

… and how Django gets it so wrong

Introduction to blocking and non-blocking code in MAAS

WTF is Dart?

Article for Norfolk Tech Journal, 2015-01-12

South, South 2, and Django Migrations

Fewer sudo password prompts

Preparing for Python 3 in MAAS

Even Google can’t write shell scripts

python-liblockfile

Protocol buffers for logging

fsync the parent directory when fsyncing a new file

Change directory to a Go package, with tab completion

In bash

Lagrange points

A video by Sixty Symbols

Workaround for uploading files to MAAS

Tagging installed Python libraries

A short script to alleviate the pain

Reply to “Downstream bug reports – fail!”