| 2025 |
| July 10 |
New Edna feature: multiple notes
in: edna
|
| 9 |
Evolving Edna Ask AI UI
in: daily thoughts, edna, ui
|
| 9 |
Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person
in: programming
|
| 8 |
Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application
in: SumatraPDF, programming, C++
|
| 7 |
Case study of over-engineered C++ code
in: c++, programming
|
| 6 |
Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go
in: go, programming
|
| 3 |
All about Svelte 5 snippets
in: svelte, programming
|
| 2 |
C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code
in: c++, SumatraPDF, programming
|
| 1 |
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF
in: SumatraPDF, programming
|
| June 30 |
Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF
in: SumatraPDF, c++, programming
|
| 29 |
Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5
in: codemirror, svelte, webdev, edna
|
| 27 |
Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript
in: webdev, javascript, edna
|
| 26 |
Go is 80/20 language
in: daily thoughts, go
|
| 25 |
Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup
in: daily thoughts, webdev, programming
|
| 24 |
How I made SumatraPDF crash less
in: SumatraPDF, programming
|
| 22 |
Ban std::string
in: daily thoughts
|
| 22 |
Compressing for the browser in Go
in: go, programming
|
| 21 |
Thoughts on C/C++ killer
in: daily thoughts
|
| 20 |
Idea for code editors
in: daily thoughts
|
| 20 |
Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5
in: svelte, programming, edna
|
| 18 |
Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go
in: go, programming
|
| 15 |
Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF
in: SumatraPDF, programming, c++
|
| 12 |
Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant
in: go, programming
|
| 11 |
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5
in: svelte, programming
|
| 2024 |
| August 29 |
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor)
in: programming ai
|
| 24 |
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript
in: programming, javascript, webdev
|
| June 27 |
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5
in: svelte, programming, edna
|
| April 10 |
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++
in: SumatraPDF, c++, win32
|
| 2023 |
| March 21 |
How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days
in: svelte, programming
|
| 11 |
Advanced markdown processing in Go
in: go, programming
|
| 9 |
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB
in: programming, svelte
|
| 2022 |
| June 29 |
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area
in: business
|
| April 12 |
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code
in: programming, c++, SumatraPDF
|
| 2021 |
| October 20 |
@levelsio and survivorship bias
in: business
|
| July 25 |
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF
in: SumatraPDF, programming
|
| June 27 |
How I use Roam Research
|
| 2019 |
| May 1 |
The things we do to ship desktop software
in: programming
|
| April 5 |
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go
in: programming, go
|
| March 25 |
Trade offs in designing versatile log format
in: programming, go
|
| 2018 |
| July 30 |
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify
in: notion
|
| 23 |
How I reverse engineered Notion API
in: notion, programming, go
|
| 18 |
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer
in: programming
|
| 2017 |
| December 24 |
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses
in: business
|
| November 7 |
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.)
in: programming, c++
|
| August 4 |
Tutorial for CLSS flexbox library for Go
in: go
|
| June 23 |
Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories
in: business
|
| January 4 |
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size
in: programming, javascript
|
| 2016 |
| October 23 |
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects
in: programming, javascript
|
| 2015 |
| February 12 |
Go package for better guid generation
in: go, programming
|
| 2014 |
| December 3 |
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go
in: programming, go
|
| October 29 |
SumatraPDF 3.0 released
in: releasenotes, SumatraPDF
|
| May 14 |
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released
in: releasenotes, SumatraPDF
|
| 2013 |
| October 30 |
Using Fabric for deploying server software
in: programming
|
| 3 |
SumatraPDF 2.4 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| March 20 |
How I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
in: programming
|
| 2012 |
| December 31 |
Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
in: go, programming
|
| 25 |
SumatraPDF 2.2 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| 16 |
Design and implementation of translation system for desktop software
in: programming, SumatraPDF
|
| October 22 |
Hiding duplicate content from your site via robots.txt
in: webdev
|
| September 16 |
How I sped up Go by 20% (or is Go really slower than Java?)
in: go, programming
|
| May 4 |
Websites with free ePub and mobi ebooks
in: SumatraPDF
|
| 3 |
SumatraPDF 2.1 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| April 15 |
Buying a certificate for signing windows applications
in: programming
|
| 2 |
SumatraPDF 2.0 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| 2011 |
| December 9 |
A list of chm readers/viewers for Windows
in: software, windows
|
| November 30 |
Showing html from memory in embedded web control on windows
in: note, win32, programming
|
| 24 |
SumatraPDF 1.9 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| September 18 |
SumatraPDF 1.8 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| July 17 |
SumatraPDF 1.7 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| June 1 |
Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go
in: go, programming
|
| May 30 |
SumatraPDF 1.6 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| 14 |
Easy vs. probable or how to make money with software
in: programming, business
|
| 7 |
90% of success is showing up - a proof
|
| April 23 |
SumatraPDF 1.5 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| March 12 |
SumatraPDF 1.4 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| 10 |
XML is really, really slow
in: programming
|
| February 8 |
My social marketing failure
in: software, business, SumatraPDF
|
| 7 |
SumatraPDF 1.3 released
in: SumatraPDF, releasenotes
|
| 6 |
Writing a custom installer for Windows software
in: SumatraPDF, programming
|
| 2010 |
| December 19 |
Executable compressors comparisons: upx 3.07w vs. mpress 2.17
in: SumatraPDF, programming
|
| 3 |
SumatraPDF 1.2 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| November 24 |
Using averages - a common performance measurement mistake
in: programming
|
| 5 |
8 habits for becoming a better programmer
in: programming
|
| October 26 |
Preventing duplicate posts in forum or blog commenting software
in: programming
|
| 24 |
Value your time
in: productivity
|
| 3 |
Startup management lessons from “The Social Network”
in: business
|
| 2 |
Marketing lessons from WebP launch
in: business
|
| August 13 |
SEO is harder than you think
in: marketing, business
|
| July 7 |
Tools that find bugs in c and c++ code via static code analysis
in: programming, c, c++
|
| June 13 |
Go vs. Python for a simple web server
in: python, go
|
| May 20 |
SumatraPDF 1.1 release
in: SumatraPDF
|
| 3 |
Summary of talk on continuous deployment
in: programming
|
| 2 |
uISV stories
in: business
|
| April 20 |
Productivity ideas
in: productivity
|
| 19 |
E-books economics
in: business
|
| January 4 |
You have to implement to understand
|
| 2 |
Best captcha is exotic captcha
|
| 2009 |
| November 18 |
SumatraPDF 1.0 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| July 20 |
Sumatra 0.9.4 release
in: SumatraPDF
|
| February 24 |
Where do bugs come from?
in: programming
|
| 24 |
ssh tips
in: ssh, unix, reference
|
| 22 |
Summary of David Ditzel talk on binary translation
in: talk, summary
|
| 2008 |
| October 2 |
SumatraPDF 0.9.3 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| August 24 |
SumatraPDF 0.9.1 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| 11 |
SumatraPDF 0.9 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| July 27 |
realloc() on Windows vs. Linux
in: programming, optimization
|
| May 28 |
SumatraPDF 0.8.1 release
in: SumatraPDF
|
| April 7 |
gflags - a debugging story
in: programming, debugging, win32
|
| 4 |
Variadic Macros (C++)
in: visual studio, c++
|
| January 3 |
Sumatra 0.8 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| 2007 |
| July 29 |
Sumatra PDF 0.7 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| June 24 |
Sane #include hierarchy for C and C++
in: programming, c, c++
|
| April 29 |
SumatraPDF 0.6 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| 29 |
A debugging story
in: debugging, windbg
|
| 13 |
Few things I’ve learned when writing Sumatra PDF
in: SumatraPDF
|
| March 4 |
SumatraPDF 0.5 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| February 19 |
SumatraPDF 0.4 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| 2006 |
| November 26 |
Sumatra PDF 0.3 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| September 2 |
How I improved SumatraPDF performance by ~60%
in: SumatraPDF, optimization, programming
|
| August 16 |
Paradox of bad comments
|
| 14 |
Performance optimization story
in: programming, optimization
|
| 6 |
Sumatra PDF 0.2 released
in: SumatraPDF
|
| June 3 |
Sumatra PDF is born
in: SumatraPDF
|
| March 17 |
Designing web forums software
|
| 11 |
Document your software
|
| January 29 |
Embedding binary resources on Windows
in: win32, c, programming
|
| 13 |
Compile-time asserts in C
in: c, programming
|
| 13 |
Basics of writing DOS .bat batch files
in: reference
|
| 2005 |
| December 31 |
High-resolution timer for timing code fragments
in: win32, c, programming
|
| 30 |
Accurate timers on Windows
in: win32, programming
|
| 2004 |
| July 1 |
Review of “Hot text - web writing that works”
in: book, review
|
| 2003 |
| June 12 |
Writing to sell
in: business, writing
|
| 11 |
On difference between amateur and professional shareware
in: business
|
| 2002 |
| November 17 |
Good programming practices
|
| August 27 |
The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed
|
| July 26 |
Principle of good design: discoverability
in: ui design
|
| 19 |
Bugs and eyeballs
in: quote, programming
|
| February 11 |
Engineering school (summary of Rick Catell talk)
|
| January 1 |
What I've learned from "After the Gold Rush"
|
| 2001 |
| August 29 |
Things I Learned the Hard Way: Engineering and Computer Science in the Real World
|