Perpetual interests

Programming languages

• Programming language design

Domain-specific languages:

• External textual DSLs
• List of external textual DSLs

Parsers, interpreters, compilers:

• Choices for lexing and parsing in Ruby

Knowledge management

Structuring:

• Organize electronic archives by year
• Give up and put everything in purgatory

Note-taking:

• About these notes
• Notes are not articles
• The format of a note

Naming:

• Naming principles
• Approaches to naming products
• A project is not a product

Technical writing

(This is related to knowledge management as well.)

• How to write a good README for a product
• Bug report format
• Pull request template
• Lightweight markup languages are inadequate for technical writing
• A good markup language is resilient against failure
• Short-form content doesn’t need to be written as a chronological sequence of blog posts

Finances and budgeting

• Budget for replacing past purchases
• Budgeting categories
• Lending and borrowing: implementation

Software engineering

Code reviews:

• Fast code reviews are crucial for team velocity
• Separate code reviews into feedback levels
• The purpose of code review is not to find defects

Communication:

• Drive change by writing structured proposal documents

Collaboration:

• Short-lived branches are indispensable for refactoring
• The impact of Git, GitHub, etc

Techniques:

• Can functions be too short?

Software development paradigms

• Build systems
• Spreadsheets and dataflow languages

Developer tooling

• UX matters for developer tools

Projects

Web site:

• Audience of my web site
• Contents of my web site