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1. 19 Sep 2026
   What I believe about the future of software development
2. 17 May 2022
   Professional Programming: The First 10 Years ★
3. 15 Sep 2020
   The context in which we build software
4. 08 Sep 2020
   How can you not be romantic about programming? ★
5. 01 Sep 2020
   No, typing can be the bottleneck ★
6. 25 Aug 2020
   But does it help you ship?
7. 22 May 2020
   What you think is bad about remote work, can, well, actually be good.
8. 04 Feb 2020
   How much do we bend to the will of our tools?
9. 09 Apr 2019
   Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them ★
10. 04 Sep 2018
    The Tools I Use To Write Books ★
11. 14 Aug 2018
    The Paperback Edition of Writing A Compiler In Go
12. 28 Jun 2017
    The Lost Chapter: A Macro System For Monkey
13. 22 Feb 2017
    Writing An Interpreter In Go: The Paperback Edition
14. 08 Feb 2017
    Higher Value Tools
15. 16 Jan 2017
    What I didn't do to write a book ★
16. 04 Jan 2017
    A Virtual Brainfuck Machine In Go
17. 30 Nov 2016
    Why I Wrote a Book About Interpreters
18. 16 Nov 2016
    Putting Eval In Go
19. 22 Oct 2015
    Write Stupid Code
20. 20 Nov 2014
    Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks ★
21. 13 Oct 2014
    Why threads can't fork
22. 13 Jun 2014
    Where did fork go?
23. 12 Mar 2014
    Watching and Understanding the Ruby 2.1 Garbage Collector at Work
24. 11 Aug 2013
    Named Pipes
25. 07 Apr 2013
    Watchgopher
26. 15 Jan 2013
    Discipline
27. 24 Oct 2012
    Command Line Ride
28. 02 Sep 2012
    Software Cover Versions And Programming Licks
29. 09 Jul 2012
    Vim Learning Resources
30. 20 Jun 2012
    How I used 98840 commands less and saved 4 seconds
31. 08 Jun 2012
    Ordered Search Autocompletion With Redis