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reproducible environments are not a luxury. a few notes on how i use nix to keep my dev machines in sync.

reproducible environments are not a luxury. a few notes on how i use nix to keep my dev machines in sync.

writing a streaming json parser in zig was the best way i could think of to actually learn the language.

moving runtime sql errors to compile time. what worked, what didn't, and what i'd do differently.

i rewrote a tool i use daily to target bun's single-file binary output. the size and cold start are good enough that node can stay in the past.

a short journal of working through unsafe rust. what clicked, what didn't, and the parts that aged best.

i tried to replace make with a small ocaml program. here's the shape of the thing, the parts that were fun, and the parts i'd cut.

a retrospective on a year of small shell scripts, aliases, and the few that survived contact with the real world.

moving a small portfolio off next.js and onto astro. the bundle, the build, the time it took to load on a phone in a tunnel.

the smallest interpreter i could write that still felt like a real language. parsing, envs, and the parts i skipped.

six months on helix, then back to neovim. the editor config that made me stay, and the one that made me leave.