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17 May 2022	★	Professional Programming: The First 10 Years
15 Sep 2020		The context in which we build software
08 Sep 2020	★	How can you not be romantic about programming?
01 Sep 2020	★	No, typing can be the bottleneck
25 Aug 2020		But does it help you ship?
22 May 2020		What you think is bad about remote work, can, well, actually be good.
04 Feb 2020		How much do we bend to the will of our tools?
09 Apr 2019	★	Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them
04 Sep 2018	★	The Tools I Use To Write Books
14 Aug 2018		The Paperback Edition of Writing A Compiler In Go
28 Jun 2017		The Lost Chapter: A Macro System For Monkey
22 Feb 2017		Writing An Interpreter In Go: The Paperback Edition
08 Feb 2017		Higher Value Tools
16 Jan 2017	★	What I didn't do to write a book
04 Jan 2017		A Virtual Brainfuck Machine In Go
30 Nov 2016		Why I Wrote a Book About Interpreters
16 Nov 2016		Putting Eval In Go
22 Oct 2015		Write Stupid Code
20 Nov 2014	★	Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks
13 Oct 2014		Why threads can't fork
13 Jun 2014		Where did fork go?
12 Mar 2014		Watching and Understanding the Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collector at Work
11 Aug 2013		Named Pipes
07 Apr 2013		Watchgopher
15 Jan 2013		Discipline
24 Oct 2012		Command Line Ride
02 Sep 2012		Software Cover Versions And Programming Licks
09 Jul 2012		Vim Learning Resources
20 Jun 2012		How I used 98840 commands less and saved 4 seconds
08 Jun 2012		Ordered Search Autocompletion With Redis