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Does Your Department Have an AI Policy? Here’s Edinburgh’s

Run a better book club

Notes from a moderately-successful book club I ran for Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

Learn & Relearn

With industry changes forcing us to re-evaluate what software engineering should be, the retrospection path isn't uniform or unanimous, nor should it be.

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-20-26

I present for your reading enjoyment our daily selection of Pook-Emu Bee links for Monday, April 20, 2026. 1. AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns (Maggie…

Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm

I learned algorithms from textbooks and papers, building mental models from pseudocode and hand-drawn sketches. The hardest part was never reading the algorithm: it was seeing what it was actually doi…

2025 in review

2025 was my year of doing ALL the things - speaking at 5+ conferences, starting a podcast, shipping side projects, and somehow not completely burning out. I learned that momentum creates more momentum…

Giving Up on Rust: A Post-Mortem

I should not be sorry.

An Autistic Silver Bullet

No, I’m not AI. I just write like that.

Complete CSS

I bought a copy of Complete CSS from Picalli.li a few weeks ago, with the intention of upping my CSS game. It's old territory for me, but my layout techniques pre-date flex... floats, clear fixes and …

Rustlings Session 5: Quick Stretches and Type Systems

Rustlings Session 4: Error Handling and Existential Crisis

Rustlings Session 3: When Your Sleep Schedule is More Nocturnal Than Your Code

Rustlings Session 2: Structs, Enums, and Why I'm an Idiot (Sections 7-9)

Rustlings Session 1: First Steps into Rust (Sections 0-6)

Rustlings — First Steps into Rust

Five Rustlings sessions covering variables through type systems — the enthusiasm, the compiler battles, and the decision to stop.

The Linguistic Archaeology of English: How Latin and Greek Built Our Modern Vocabulary

My custom lib.nixosSystem

How I came to write my own lib.nixosSystem

2024 in review

A look back at parental leave, switching teams at GitHub, finding crochet, and starting therapy and an SSRI that changed everything.

Experimenting with Nix

A little bit of fun with Nix

Writing a Neovim plugin

A story about writing my first Neovim plugin

My Journey So Far

A in depth look at my linux and development journey so far

My workflow

Keeping on track with workflow

Self-Healing URLs

Creating self-healing URLs within my Vue.js website

Ionic and Vue, Part Two

My deep dive into learning Ionic and Vue.

What I Have Learned With Ionic

What I have learned with using the Ionic framework in three months.

Ionic and Vue, Part One

My deep dive into learning Ionic and Vue.