I write about software engineering, academia, product design, and usability. About 3/4 of them generate notable discussion on HN.

I have been writing here since 2001. I write infrequently, so there are only about 50 posts so far. Some of my favourite posts:

- https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html

- https://susam.net/blog/fd-100.html

- https://susam.net/blog/peculiar-self-references.html

- https://susam.net/blog/langford-pairing.html

- https://susam.net/blog/self-printing-machine-code.html

The blog and the website is statically generated using a Common Lisp program. Only the comment form is dynamic and served using a tiny web application, also written in Common Lisp. See https://github.com/susam/susam.net for the source code.

I merge things across essays, notes, talks, podcasts, tutorials, and snippets and have 542 items.

- https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/ My most impactful essay, read by millions.

- https://www.swyx.io/create-luck/ Luck Surface Area, The 4 Kinds of Luck & beyond

- https://www.swyx.io/measuring-devrel Split it into Community, Content & Product

- https://www.swyx.io/js-third-age/ The future of JS tools & infra from 2020-2030

- https://www.swyx.io/api-economy/ The API Economy: Why it's good, but also has a dark side

- https://www.swyx.io/cloudflare-go/ On AWS vs Cloudflare

- https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime The final frontier of language and infra

- https://www.swyx.io/why-temporal/ The iPhone of System Design

- https://www.swyx.io/part-time-creator-manifesto Have a job, but don't BE your job

- https://www.swyx.io/meta-creator-ceiling Don't play games you don't want to win

Personal blog covering engineering and technical topics.

Mostly cocktails and municipal politics of Hamilton Ontario.

- https://donatstudios.com

I'm known for my Minecraft Circle Generator

- https://donatstudios.com/PixelCircleGenerator

but I've got other projects and spiels. Couple of them have been on HN before. Go, PHP, CSVs, and complaining about tech.

CSV: An Encoding Nightmare

- https://donatstudios.com/CSV-An-Encoding-Nightmare

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About CSVs

- https://donatstudios.com/Falsehoods-Programmers-Believe-Abou...

GitHub Shouldn't Allow Username Reuse (This problem just had a light shine down on it again recently)

- https://donatstudios.com/GithubsTotalSecurityFacepalm

Go Modules have a v2+ Problem

- https://donatstudios.com/Go-v2-Modules

It's a personal blog, I've run different versions of it for 15 years or so, and there's few pages cached in archive.org which I would like to bring back to the latest incarnation.

Alas, never a priority.

The latest issue of my blog, which is a PDF file that is also a Factorio mod.

I haven't written in a long time... I should probably re-start soon.

Posts are randomly distributed in topic/time space.