Beej’s Guides are all excellent tools to learn various programming languages and technologies. Notably useful for me are Beej’s Guide to Network Programming and Beej’s Guide to C (both volumes)

Some suggestions for projects programmers should try in order to level up their skills.

Permacomputing focuses on sustainable computing, inspired by permaculture, aiming to utilize existing compute resources rather than new ones. The wiki is very incomplete, but is something to keep an eye on as it grows.

A list of tips when writing shell scripts. Especially useful for me since I’m not super familiar with bash but use it on a daily basis.

An interesting look into how C structs work and how to squeeze some extra optimization out of them.

Every C class teaches you to use scanf() to read input. Every Cbest practices guide tells you to never use scanf(). This article describes how.

Coming from CSS Tricks is a terrific guide to using CSS flexbox with examples and explanations of all the properties. My go-to resource whenever I have questions regarding flexbox.

fLaMEd fury recently tagged me in his Blog Question Challenge post that has been circulating around the indieweb over the past month. I finally got into a headspace to write for my website a bit, so here are my answers! Why did you start blogging in the first place? I have a lot of thoughts which are, in my unbiased...

Madeline Miller recently wrote about motion sickness triggered by video games, potential causes, and potential fixes. I feel seen. As a child, I distinctly remember playing Shadow the Hedgehog of all things when I first discoved games could make me nauseous. I am able to build up a tolerance to games if I play...

A couple of weeks ago my brain suddenly got an itch. I was at the office listening to music on my old Sansa Clip+ player when it’s battery died halfway through the day again. Disappointed, I put it and my headphones away and continued my day in silence. But my brain would not be silent. This was a problem and it...

The results of last night’s election are disappointing, angering, and horrifying. But they are not shocking. I’ve seen lots of talk about how stupid and racist and sexist the general American populace is to be able to vote the way the did. I don’t think that is accurate. Of course, there is no doubt which candidate...

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been using LibreWolf as my daily driver browser. It’s been about two weeks since then, and I had some thoughts. I originally tried to compile LibreWolf myself, which is how I found out 16GB of RAM is not enough to compile a web browser. I found this interesting since I was...