Derw

Programming affordance: when a language's patterns make it natural to make mistakes

Many of my philosophies in work life, my volunteer life, and my personal life stem from experiences. As a developer, many of those come from being burnt…

Published on The Tech Enabler • Jul 10

May 2025

Choose the right structure at the start

A good data structure can simplify code. Tegan's a toy language I made for a talk, based on the idea of having the right data structure simplifying…

Published on The Tech Enabler • May 1

January 2025

The future of programming languages

No, AI is not replacing programming languages (yet).

Published on The Tech Enabler • Jan 21

April 2024

How languages influence each other and evolve

What starts as a good idea in one place often ends up as a good idea in other places.

Published on The Tech Enabler • Apr 15, 2024

November 2023

Getting started with Derw for Advent Of Code

You may have heard of Advent Of Code before, but if not, the concept is pretty fun - for every day between December 1st and December 25th, there will be…

Nov 29, 2023 • 

Noah

October 2023

The "I'm making a new programming language" checklist

You're making a new programming language.

Oct 10, 2023 • 

Noah

May 2023

March 2023

Introducing neuro-lingo, a LLM powered comment language

Tooling like Github Copilot allow developers to generate code within their code files.

Mar 30, 2023 • 

Noah

1

February 2023

Derw changelog, February 2023

I've been spending a lot of the last few months reading and writing. I wrote about the case for building something wonderful alone, my most popular…

Feb 26, 2023 • 

Noah

3

Whatever happened to Elm, anyway?

I see this question pop up quite frequently in lots of different arenas - folks are curious as to what happened to Elm.

Feb 13, 2023 • 

Noah

2

1

Things coming to Derw, Feburary 2023

I've been spending a lot of time implementing things in Derw, and thinking about what's missing.

Feb 11, 2023 • 

Noah

1

January 2023

Sponsorship, open source, and the career dream

With these difficult times for many companies, I find myself reflecting on my future.

Jan 29, 2023 • 

Noah