TIL: Setting default browser on macOS using Nix
Jul 12, 2024
Switch your browser around, declaratively.
Lies, damn lies, and business cases for AI hype
Jul 11, 2024
Wherein we learn that people who are sold on a technology are sold on a technology, and that’s about it
TIL: Using nix run to lint one-off Python scripts
Jul 08, 2024
Linting and autoformatting crappy little scripts as if they were proper software
Staying cool with OpenStreetMap
Jun 26, 2024
Choose an OSM tag, make it cool
A little Nix fix
Mar 02, 2024
A meandering wander around the scary magical future of package management.
TIL: Emacs Lisp - write a string to a file
Jan 05, 2023
Put some Hello World in a file.
TIL: Encode and decode text in Emacs Lisp
Jan 03, 2023
A short guide to string encoding in elisp.
Today I Learned: Background
Jan 03, 2023
Brief notes on the matter of sharing brief notes about the inner guts of technology.
Writing better API documentation: a few lessons from enterprise integration
Jun 29, 2022
Over many years working on API integrations, I’ve seen a whole lot of ways that the experience could be less frustrating. This isn’t a definitive list but a personal collection of a few recurring problems with documentation I’ve seen in different REST APIs that could be avoided.
Explain what a field does
Consider API documentation like this:
String[] tags - “This field contains tags for the post.”
This is not helpful.
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