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8 d New Edna feature: multiple notes Home
9 d Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person Home
Evolving Edna Ask AI UI Home
10 d Calling Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter API from the browser Home
Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application Home
11 d Increase open file limit on Ubuntu Linux Home
Case study of over-engineered C++ code Home
12 d Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go Home
13 d Size textarea to content Home
15 d All about Svelte 5 snippets Home
16 d C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code Home
17 d Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Home
18 d Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF Home
19 d Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 Home
21 d Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript Home
22 d Go is 80/20 language Home
23 d Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup Home
24 d How I made SumatraPDF crash less Home
26 d Compressing for the browser in Go Home
Ban std::string Home
27 d Thoughts on C/C++ killer Home
28 d Idea for code editors Home
Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5 Home
30 d Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go Home
33 d Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF Home
36 d Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant Home
37 d Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5 Home
323 d Modern C++ Home / Writings
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor) Home
324 d Software Home
328 d Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Home
386 d Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Home
464 d Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ Home
850 d How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Home
860 d Advanced markdown processing in Go Home
862 d Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB Home
880 d About me Home
I’m a Go freelancer for hire Home / About me
881 d Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites Home
883 d Writings Home
Hiding duplicate content from your site via robots.txt Home
885 d Logging HTTP requests in Go Home / Writings / Go programming articles
886 d Summary of David Ditzel talk on binary translation Home / Where do bugs come from?
You have to implement to understand Home
Where do bugs come from? Home
Designing web forums software Home
Summary of talk on continuous deployment Home
gflags - a debugging story Home
On difference between amateur and professional shareware Home
Writing to sell Home
How I improved SumatraPDF performance by ~60% Home
Marketing lessons from WebP launch Home
Startup management lessons from “The Social Network” Home
Value your time Home
Using Fabric for deploying server software Home
Paradox of bad comments Home
Document your software Home
887 d SumatraPDF 1.3 released Home
Tutorial for CLSS flexbox library for Go Home
Writing a custom installer for Windows software Home
Engineering and Computer Science in the Real World Home / Writings
My social marketing failure Home
XML is really, really slow Home
SumatraPDF 1.4 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.5 released Home
90% of success is showing up - a proof Home
Easy vs. probable or how to make money with software Home
SumatraPDF 1.6 released Home
Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go Home
SumatraPDF 1.2 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.7 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.8 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.9 released Home
Showing html from memory in embedded web control on windows Home
A list of chm readers/viewers for Windows Home
SumatraPDF 2.0 released Home
Buying a certificate for signing windows applications Home
SumatraPDF 2.1 released Home
Websites with free ePub and mobi ebooks Home
How I sped up Go by 20% (or is Go really slower than Java?) Home
Using averages - a common performance measurement mistake Home
Speeding up Go with custom allocators Home / Go Cookbook
Design and implementation of translation system for desktop software Home
SumatraPDF 2.2 released Home
8 habits for becoming a better programmer Home
How I ported pigz from Unix to Windows Home
SumatraPDF 2.4 released Home
Preventing duplicate posts in forum or blog commenting software Home
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released Home
SumatraPDF 3.0 released Home
Tip for per-test verbose logging in Go Home
Improving speed of SMAZ compressor by 2.6x/1.5x Home / Go Cookbook
Accessing GitHub API from Go Home / Go Cookbook
Go package for better guid generation Home
Extracting files from .7z archives in Go Home / Go Cookbook
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Home
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size Home
What I've learned from "After the Gold Rush" Home / Writings
Engineering school (summary of Rick Catell talk) Home / Writings
Bugs and eyeballs Home
Principle of good design: discoverability Home
The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed Home
Good programming practices Home
Review of “Hot text - web writing that works” Home
Accurate timers on Windows Home
High-resolution timer for timing code fragments Home
Basics of writing DOS .bat batch files Home
Compile-time asserts in C Home
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Home
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (gcc, clang, msvc etc.) Home
Embedding binary resources on Windows Home
Sumatra PDF is born Home
Sumatra PDF 0.2 released Home
Performance optimization story Home
Sumatra PDF 0.3 released Home
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses Home
SumatraPDF 0.4 released Home
SumatraPDF 0.5 released Home
Few things I’ve learned when writing Sumatra PDF Home
SEO is harder than you think Home
A debugging story Home
SumatraPDF 0.6 released Home
Business articles Home / Writings
Sane #include hierarchy for C and C++ Home
Tools that find bugs in c and c++ code via static code analysis Home
Sumatra PDF 0.7 released Home
Sumatra 0.8 released Home
Variadic Macros (C++) Home
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify Home
SumatraPDF 0.8.1 release Home
realloc() on Windows vs. Linux Home
Trade offs in designing versatile log format Home
Go vs. Python for a simple web server Home
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go Home
The things we do to ship desktop software Home
List of CBR, CBZ comic book readers for windows Home / Writings
List of CHM readers and viewers for Window Home / Writings
List of ePub format readers and viewers for Windows Home / Writings
List of mobi format readers and viewers for Windows Home / Writings
List of website with free eBooks in EPUB and MOBI formats Home / Writings
SumatraPDF 0.9 released Home
The Silver Searcher windows port Home / Software
How I use Roam Research Home
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF Home
SumatraPDF 0.9.1 released Home
Go programming articles Home / Writings
uISV stories Home
SumatraPDF 1.1 release Home
SumatraPDF 0.9.3 released Home
ssh tips Home
Sumatra 0.9.4 release Home
SumatraPDF 1.0 released Home
Executable compressors comparisons: upx 3.07w vs. mpress 2.17 Home
Best captcha is exotic captcha Home
E-books economics Home
Productivity ideas Home
@levelsio and survivorship bias Home
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code Home
895 d filerotate - Go library for rotating files Home / Software
916 d Hide header on scroll in Svelte Home / Writings / Programming articles
How I reverse engineered Notion API Home / Writings / Programming articles
917 d Using GitHub Actions with Go Home / Writings / Go programming articles
A short guide to marketing for developers Home / Writings / Business articles
Diary of a solo dev building a web app Home / Writings
Big projects written in Go Home / Writings / Go programming articles
Companies using go Home / Writings / Go programming articles
Rewritten - tales of rewriting software from X to Go Home / Writings / Go programming articles
Using MySQL in Docker for local testing in Python Home / Writings / Programming articles
Essentials of Starting Indie Business Home / Writings / Business articles
Finding freelancers Home / Writings / Business articles
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Home / Writings / Programming articles
Portable Executable File Format Home / Writings
Summary of Founders Battle Talk #7 about SEO Home / Writings / Business articles
Summary of “Sell to Strangers” video about content marketing Home / Writings / Business articles
Summary Of "The Mom test" book about validating business ideas Home / Writings / Business articles
Programming articles Home / Writings
Small business stories Home / Writings / Business articles
Basics of freelancing Home / Writings / Business articles
Using Go instead of bash for scripts Home / Writings / Go programming articles
Typescript basics Home / Writings / Programming articles
Social media image sizes Home / Writings / Programming articles
Sending emails with Mailgun in Go Home / Writings / Go programming articles
1098 d Tech note: speed of iteration in programming Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1099 d Day 35: fixed onedrive, gdrive token refresh Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1100 d Tech note: Dropbox login Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Tech note: JavaScript debugging helpers Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 34: more backblaze, refactorings Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1102 d Day 33: more backblaze Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1104 d Day 25: Google Drive support Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 11: upload file to local fs Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 23: file copy Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 32: optimizations, backblaze Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 22: file properties Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 21: s3 create new dir, last modification time Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 31: tweaking bookmarks list Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
JavaScript optimization story Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 24: dialog refactoring Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 20: fs refactoring Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 19: analytics, context menu Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 18: improving s3 upload Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 17: file download Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 30: better dialogs Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 29: optimizing file representation and s3 Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 28: OneDrive support, more file properties Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 27: better Google Drive login, One Drive support Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 26: more google drive support Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 16: bookmarks Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 0: the idea Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 15: text preview Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 1: tech stack, creating project from scratch Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 2: displaying list of files Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 3: Dropbox Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 4: s3, sorting, remembering credentials Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 5: setting up a website Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 6: Dropbox fix, bug fixes and small improvements Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 7: context menu, file delete Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 8: more file delete, file upload Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 9: Dropbox upload Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 10: s3 file delete, ui tweaks Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 14: image preview, file rename Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 12: s3 upload and delete directories Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 13: local fs fixes Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1105 d Programmer productivity: lines of code edition Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1113 d Filerion marketing Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1116 d Thoughts on getting user feedback Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Filerion tech stack Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on documentation Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Using Roam Research for productivity Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on developer productivity Home / Writings / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1123 d S3 and directories Home / Software / Filerion documentation
Upload files from your computer Home / Software / Filerion documentation
1431 d Pure Bash Bible Home / Writings
1432 d atomicfile - robustly writing to a file in Go Home / Software
Vim Reference Home / Writings
Using Notion API Go client Home / Software
siser Home / Software
2164 d Fuzzing Markdown parser written in Go Home / Go Cookbook
2182 d Pigz windows port Home / Software
2464 d Go Cookbook Home / Writings
2907 d Experience porting 4.5k loc of C to Go (Facebook's CSS flexbox implementation Yoga) Home / Go Cookbook
2930 d 3 ways to iterate in Go Home / Go Cookbook
2931 d Using MySQL in Docker for local testing In Go Home / Go Cookbook
Rotate log files daily in Go Home / Go Cookbook
Simple serialization format for logging and analytics in Go Home / Go Cookbook
HTTPS for free in Go, with little help of Let's Encrypt Home / Go Cookbook
Advanced command execution in Go with os/exec Home / Go Cookbook
Generating good unique ids in Go Home / Go Cookbook
Embedding build number in Go executable Home / Go Cookbook
2937 d Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories Home

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