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• DRAFT: What should a Continuous Integration (CI) server do? - 7 March 2023
• February 2023 Update - 5 March 2023
• January 2023 Update - 11 February 2023
• December 2022 Update - 9 January 2023
• How should I evolve the design of my projectional editor? - 15 December 2022
• November 2022 Update - 2 December 2022
• October 2022 Update - 10 November 2022
• September 2022 Update - 8 October 2022
• August 2022 Update - 9 September 2022
• How to write reliable socket servers that survive crashes and restarts? - 2 September 2022
• July 2022 Update - 2 August 2022
• June 2022 Update - 4 July 2022
• May 2022 Update - 4 June 2022
• April 2022 Update - 1 May 2022
• March 2022 Update - 2 April 2022
• February 2022 Update - 2 March 2022
• RLMeta poster 2: the poster that wasn’t - 12 February 2022
• January 2022 Update - 4 February 2022
• December 2021 Update - 4 January 2022
• November 2021 Update - 2 December 2021
• October 2021 Update - 4 November 2021
• September 2021 Update - 9 October 2021
• What Is Programming? - 14 September 2021
• August 2021 Update - 7 September 2021
• July 2021 Update - 3 August 2021
• Dogfooding Literate Programming Support in Smart Notes (June 2021 Update) - 4 July 2021
• May 2021 Update - 6 June 2021
• Newsletter April 2021 - 4 May 2021
• Newsletter March 2021 - 4 April 2021
• Newsletter February 2021 - 2 March 2021
• Kinesis Advantage 2 Swedish Setup - 15 February 2021
• Newsletter January 2021 - 2 February 2021
• Newsletter December 2020 - 1 January 2021
• Newsletter November 2020 - 3 December 2020
• Newsletter October 2020 - 11 November 2020
• Newsletter September 2020 - 3 October 2020
• Newsletter August 2020 - 13 September 2020
• The Bullet Journal Method: Migration as Review - 13 August 2020
• Newsletter July 2020 - 3 August 2020
• Atomic Habits: The Two-Minute Rule - 27 July 2020
• Newsletter June 2020 - 6 July 2020
• Newsletter May 2020 - 13 June 2020
• Creating the RLMeta poster - 24 May 2020
• DRAFT: Compiling expressions to x86 machine code - 20 May 2020
• Newsletter April 2020 - 4 May 2020
• DRAFT: Porting RLMeta to C++ - 10 April 2020
• Layout/Update problem in wxPython - 3 April 2020
• Newsletter March 2020 - 2 April 2020
• Newsletter February 2020 - 2 March 2020
• Newsletter January 2020 - 3 February 2020
• Memoizing failures in RLMeta - 11 January 2020
• Newsletter December 2019 - 5 January 2020
• Newsletter November 2019 - 3 December 2019
• Newsletter October 2019 - 2 November 2019
• Newsletter September 2019 - 1 October 2019
• Segfault with custom events in wxPython - 28 September 2019
• Alan Kay notes - 25 September 2019
• Parsing left associative operators using RLMeta - 7 September 2019
• Doctest fails in Python 3 with wxPython - 31 August 2019
• Newsletter August 2019 - 31 August 2019
• RLMeta: a VM based approach - 6 August 2019
• Newsletter July 2019 - 31 July 2019
• Newsletter June 2019 - 30 June 2019
• Optimizing RLMeta - 28 June 2019
• DRAFT: Parsing off-side rule languages with RLMeta - 27 June 2019
• Modifying the RLMeta metacompiler - 28 May 2019
• A meta approach to implementing programming languages - 2 December 2018
• A new home for Timeline - 6 November 2017
• Evolution of recalling Bash history - 19 May 2017
• Bitten by Python generators - 11 March 2017
• Tell, don’t ask example - 20 September 2016
• Problem statements in commit messages - 23 October 2015
• Timeline release statistics - 1 July 2015
• Precision of datetime in Python - 27 June 2015
• Analysis of Timeline emails - 21 June 2015
• Search and replace in Vim - 28 March 2015
• The danger with implicit if statements in Python - 3 November 2014
• Xmodmap on Fedora - 17 September 2014
• Accumulating cruft - 5 June 2014
• Recognizing progress - 4 June 2014
• Testing as a minimum - 3 June 2014
• Small increments - 2 June 2014
• Refactor before - 28 May 2014
• Discoverable tests - 27 May 2014
• Functional core - 26 May 2014
• Editing code as text - 23 May 2014
• Erlang - 22 May 2014
• Naming intermediate steps - 21 May 2014
• State - 20 May 2014
• Testability == good design? - 19 May 2014
• Visualizing program flow - 18 May 2014
• Clarity is hard - 15 May 2014
• Exploring with doctest - 14 May 2014
• Powerful software - 13 May 2014
• Software writer - 12 May 2014
• Latency free overdubbing in Ardour - 30 September 2013
• Refactoring step in TDD - 5 July 2013
• Mindmap tasks - 4 July 2013
• Visualizing hierarchy and grouping - 3 July 2013
• Cohesion an naming - 2 July 2013
• Learning about a problem - 1 July 2013
• Formatting code - 30 June 2013
• One thing per commit - 29 June 2013
• Atomic operations - 28 June 2013
• Constant progress - 27 June 2013
• Small steps - 26 June 2013
• Smallest possible thing - 25 June 2013
• Resistance to learning - 24 June 2013
• Documenting projects - 23 June 2013
• Features and bugs - 22 June 2013
• Bug free code - 21 June 2013
• Using tests for feedback - 20 June 2013
• Duplicated code - 19 June 2013
• Maintainable tests - 18 June 2013
• Test coverage - 17 June 2013
• Size of code - 16 June 2013
• Confidence in changing code - 15 June 2013
• What tests to keep? - 14 June 2013
• Boy scout habit - 13 June 2013
• Refactor with higher confidence - 12 June 2013
• Related things are not kept together - 24 February 2013
• How to organize your tests? - 8 September 2012
• Learn how to implement languages - 30 August 2012
• Good bad programmer - 22 July 2012
• A refactoring story - 11 July 2012
• Data structures in OOP - 23 June 2012
• A beautiful Brainfuck implementation - 17 June 2012
• Closing the feedback loop - 3 March 2012
• Setup and teardown in HUnit - 25 February 2012
• Hello world in Haskell and GTK - 11 February 2012
• Writing a real application in Haskell - 5 February 2012
• Organizing information on a wiki - 23 January 2012
• Introducing a series about the development of an application - 11 January 2012
• Does TDD have less advantage in Haskell? - 2 November 2011
• Learning Haskell - 10 October 2011
• Testing configuration - 28 September 2011

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