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I'm jthegedus, a software engineer with a goal of creating quality software through simplicity, clarity, and frugality, inspired by the suckless philosophy.
Writings
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State of Firebase (late 2020)
Official Firebase & Community Updates!
State of Firebase (mid 2020)
Official Firebase & Community Updates!
Ubuntu 20.04 on Lenovo ThinkPad E485
It just works!
Projects
See all →- asdf - CLI tool that manages multiple language runtime versions on a per-project basis
I am working on AI-related developer tools, stay tuned.
Finds
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- Preventing the Collapse of Civilization - Jonathan Blow
- Doing what you think, not what you thought - Jason Fried
- Jevons paradox - William Stanley Jevons
- Locality of Behaviour - Carson Gross
Tools I like
- Go - concise language that makes difficult things easier
- Zig - explicit language that makes difficult things clear
- Datastar - hypermedia framework
- Litestream - SQLite replication
Blogs I follow
Individual voices.
- Simon Willison's Weblog
- Avi's Blag
- Sylvain Kerkour
- Unplanned Obsolescence
- Infrequently Noted
- htmx Essays
- Tom MacWright
- Armin Ronacher
- Joshua Purtell
- Hamy's Projects
- Engineers Need Art
- Chris Done
- Jonas Hietala
- St Graber
Company blogs.