I passed 400 posts a month or so ago; been writing for about a decade. It's a mix of programming, arty stuff, digital preservation, personal thoughts – the first link describes the sort of writing I do, and examples of each.
Some favourites:
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/screenshots/ – You should take more screenshots, a perennial darling of HN
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/marquee-rocket/ – Launching a rocket in the worst possible way, aka abusing the <marquee> tag
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/bure-valley/ – A day out at the Bure Valley Railway, trains!
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/snapped-elastic/ – Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2, the sort of deep-dive debugging I don’t do often enough
(And a fairly basic post about prime factorisation with Python has been on the HN front page several times, for reasons I do not understand at all)
I passed 400 posts a month or so ago; been writing for about a decade. It's a mix of programming, arty stuff, digital preservation, personal thoughts – the first link describes the sort of writing I do, and examples of each.
Some favourites:
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/screenshots/ – You should take more screenshots, a perennial darling of HN
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/marquee-rocket/ – Launching a rocket in the worst possible way, aka abusing the <marquee> tag
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/bure-valley/ – A day out at the Bure Valley Railway, trains!
* https://alexwlchan.net/2022/snapped-elastic/ – Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2, the sort of deep-dive debugging I don’t do often enough
(And a fairly basic post about prime factorisation with Python has been on the HN front page several times, for reasons I do not understand at all)