Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Building native packages is complicated

Especially if you want a UX as good as Docker images give you.

My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers.

I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobody wants to buy it, so I ran a one-month pre-sale on Kickstarter. I structured the project so that if I didn’t hit $5k in pre-orders, the project would be canceled, and I’d walk away with nothing.

Optimizing JPEGs with MozJPEG for local archival

Writing a wrapper script around MozJPEG to achieve ~80% compression on large JPEGs with little downside.

Nuclear disarmament: The institutional landscape (UU lecture notes)

I attended a lecture on the institutional landscape of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament this week. My rough notes are below.

Nuclear disarmament: The institutional landscape (UU lecture notes)

I attended a lecture on the institutional landscape of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament this week. My rough notes are below.