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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 •

October 2023

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

You're making a new programming language. Perhaps it's inspired by your love of Python but you wish it could be faster. Maybe you work with Ruby but…

Oct 10 •

May 2023

Unblocking myself by writing compilers

Part of my typical flow working on Derw is to build things using it. I'm a believer that if you just write the language but don't use it, it's easy to…

May 9 •

March 2023

Introducing neuro-lingo, a LLM powered comment language

Tooling like Github Copilot allow developers to generate code within their code files. Write some functions, put a commend then hit auto-complete, and…

Mar 30 •

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 •

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. As a former community member of…

Feb 13 •

Things coming to Derw, Feburary 2023

I've been spending a lot of time implementing things in Derw, and thinking about what's missing. I tend to do this a lot. But I figured I would write…

Feb 11 •

January 2023

Sponsorship, open source, and the career dream

With these difficult times for many companies, I find myself reflecting on my future. There's a couple of obvious paths: the first is to continue in my…

Jan 29 •

The unforgiving giving of time for open source

Consider yourself in a queue of people at the grocery store, waiting to pay for your weekly shopping. Someone is behind you, and they seem a bit…

Jan 11 •

December 2022

Embracing and appreciating your own work

I've been doing Advent of Code this year, not on a fix schedule, just when I get some time. Like last year, I'm using Derw. This isn't a sales pitch on…

Dec 26, 2022 •

Make your own TEA (The Elm Architecture)

If you’re familiar with the frontend ecosystem for the last few years, you’ve probably come across a framework which roughly follows the structure of: A…

Dec 11, 2022 •

November 2022

Telepathic technical writing

My whole career, I've tried to follow the principle of "if you didn't write about it, it didn't happen". Writing happens in many forms: blog posts…

Nov 20, 2022 •

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