Software development blog of Joe Wright

In the midst of a pandemic, it’s delightful to imagine doing whatever you like without worrying about making a living.

Scavenging for metal, damages fiber optic cable with her shovel

Veamly app helps you fight decision fatigue and burnout by optimizing your time and protecting your focus for a balanced work-life style.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A team of retirees that scours the remote ravines and windswept plains of the Pacific Northwest for long-forgotten pioneer orchards has rediscovered 10 apple varieties that were believed to be extinct — the largest number ever unearthed…

A flat-file CMS works much like a traditional CMS. It has an interface to edit and manage content along with a front-end templating system. However, it doesn’t need a database.

A list of things that were not supposed to be Turing-complete, but are.

Ever heard of the fabled land of Bengodi, where they roll macaroni noodles down a mountain of parmesan cheese, straight into your mouth?

I last wrote in December 2019 about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.

The health of insect populations globally is far more varied than previous research suggested.

Comorbidities appeared to play a major role

A small state-of-the-art study on custom engines. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone who’s had a mediocre career? But there’s massive sampling bias. All this advice will try to draw grand, sweeping narratives and also typically…