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17 d Advanced markdown processing in Go Home
18 d Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF Home
Better unique id generation than UUID Home
Generating good unique IDs in Go Home / Go Cookbook
Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF Home
19 d Optimizing memory use in a Markdown parser Home
82 d Letting AI agents drive a GUI app with -dbg-control Home
84 d Finding active GitHub forks from the command line Home
165 d Speeding up JavaScript function with AI help Home
237 d How to run msvc cl.exe from command-line (powershell) Home
262 d Novel login system for web apps Home
269 d Benchmarking JSON vs TOON in Go Home
From JSON to TOON Home
415 d Ideas for faster web dev cycle Home
Fixing Zed's debugger keybindings Home
416 d AltTab for Mac OS Home
Stage manager in Mac OS Home
Zed debug setup for go server / Svelte web app Home
417 d Using await in Svelte 5 components Home
lazy import of JavaScript modules Home
418 d vite /rollup manualChunks Home
419 d Increase software sales by 50% or more Home
420 d File sync is very slow Home
428 d Evolving Edna Ask AI UI Home
Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person Home
429 d Implementing UI translation in SumatraPDF, a C++ Windows application Home
Calling Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter API from the browser Home
430 d Case study of over-engineered C++ code Home
Increase open file limit on Ubuntu Linux Home
431 d Explaining nil interface{} gotcha in Go Home
432 d Size textarea to content Home
434 d All about Svelte 5 snippets Home
435 d C++ engineering decision in SumatraPDF code Home
436 d Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Home
438 d Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 Home
440 d Notion-like compact table of contents in JavaScript Home
441 d Go is 80/20 language Home
442 d Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup Home
443 d How I made SumatraPDF crash less Home
445 d Compressing for the browser in Go Home
Ban std::string Home
446 d Thoughts on C/C++ killer Home
447 d Idea for code editors Home
Implementing nested context menu in Svelte 5 Home
449 d Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go Home
455 d Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant Home
456 d Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5 Home
742 d Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor) Home
Modern C++ Home
743 d Software Home
747 d Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Home
805 d Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Home
883 d Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ Home
1269 d How I implemented wc in the browser in 3 days Home
1281 d Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB Home
1299 d I’m a Go freelancer for hire Home / About me
About me Home
1300 d Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites Home
1302 d Writings Home
Hiding duplicate content from your site via robots.txt Home
1304 d Logging HTTP requests in Go Home
1305 d Where do bugs come from? Home
Writing to sell Home
Value your time Home
On the difference between amateur and professional shareware Home
Startup management lessons from “The Social Network” Home
Marketing lessons from WebP launch Home
Summary of talk on continuous deployment Home
Document your software Home
You have to implement to understand Home
Summary of David Ditzel talk on binary translation Home / Where do bugs come from?
Designing web forums software Home
Paradox of bad comments Home
How I improved SumatraPDF performance by ~60% Home
Using Fabric for deploying server software Home
gflags - a debugging story Home
1306 d SumatraPDF 1.5 released Home
List of MOBI format readers and viewers for Windows 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
A list of chm readers/viewers for Windows Home
Speeding up Go with custom allocators Home / Go Cookbook
Design and implementation of a translation system for desktop software Home
SumatraPDF 2.2 released Home
Showing HTML from memory in an embedded web control on Windows Home
How I ported pigz from Unix to Windows Home
SumatraPDF 2.4 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.9 released 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
SumatraPDF 1.8 released 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
SumatraPDF 0.9 released Home
SumatraPDF 1.7 released Home
What I've learned from "After the Gold Rush" Home
Engineering school (summary of Rick Catell talk) Home
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
Guide to predefined macros in C++ compilers (GCC, Clang, MSVC, etc.) Home
SumatraPDF 0.9.1 released Home
SumatraPDF 0.9.3 released Home
ssh tips Home
Sumatra 0.9.4 release Home
SumatraPDF 1.0 released Home
57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses Home
The best CAPTCHA is an exotic CAPTCHA Home
Basics of writing DOS .bat batch files Home
E-books economics Home
Experience porting 4k lines of C code to Go Home
Productivity ideas Home
Compile-time asserts in C Home
uISV stories Home
SumatraPDF 1.1 release Home
SumatraPDF 1.6 released Home
Go vs. Python for a simple web server Home
Tools that find bugs in C and C++ code via static code analysis Home
SEO is harder than you think Home
Powering a blog with Notion and Netlify Home
Preventing duplicate posts in forum or blog-commenting software Home
8 habits for becoming a better programmer Home
Trade-offs in designing a versatile log format Home
Easy vs. probable or how to make money with software Home
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go Home
The things we do to ship desktop software Home
List of CBR and CBZ comic book readers for Windows Home
List of CHM readers and viewers for Windows Home
List of ePub format readers and viewers for Windows Home
realloc() on Windows vs. Linux Home
List of websites with free eBooks in EPUB and MOBI formats Home
Embedding binary resources on Windows Home
The Silver Searcher windows port Home / Software
How I use Roam Research Home
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF Home
Sumatra PDF is born Home
Using averages - a common performance measurement mistake Home
SumatraPDF 1.2 released Home
90% of success is showing up - a proof Home
Sumatra PDF 0.2 released Home
Comparison of executable compressors: UPX 3.07w vs. MPRESS 2.17 Home
Performance optimization story Home
Writing a custom installer for Windows software Home
SumatraPDF 1.3 released Home
My social marketing failure Home
Sumatra PDF 0.3 released Home
SumatraPDF 0.4 released Home
@levelsio and survivorship bias Home
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code Home
XML is really, really slow Home
SumatraPDF 1.4 released Home
SumatraPDF 0.5 released Home
Few things I’ve learned when writing Sumatra PDF Home
A debugging story Home
SumatraPDF 0.6 released Home
Sane #include hierarchy for C and C++ Home
Sumatra PDF 0.7 released Home
Sumatra 0.8 released Home
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Home
Variadic Macros (C++) Home
SumatraPDF 0.8.1 release Home
SumatraPDF 2.0 released Home
Engineering and Computer Science in the Real World Home
Business articles Home
Go programming articles Home
1314 d filerotate - Go library for rotating files Home / Software
1335 d Hide header on scroll in Svelte Home
How I reverse engineered Notion API Home
1336 d Summary of "The Mom Test," a book about validating business ideas Home
Summary of Founders Battle Talk #7 about SEO Home
Using GitHub Actions with Go Home
TypeScript basics Home
Sending emails with Mailgun in Go Home
Small business stories Home
Diary of a solo dev building a web app Home
Social media image sizes Home
Basics of freelancing Home
Big projects written in Go Home
Summary of “Sell to Strangers” video about content marketing Home
Using Go instead of bash for scripts Home
Portable Executable File Format Home
Programming articles Home
Advanced web spidering with Puppeteer Home
Finding freelancers Home
Essentials of starting an indie business Home
A short guide to marketing for developers Home
Using MySQL in Docker for local testing in Python Home
Rewritten - tales of rewriting software from X to Go Home
Companies using Go Home
1517 d Tech note: speed of iteration in programming Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1518 d Day 35: fixed OneDrive and Google Drive token refresh Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1519 d Tech note: JavaScript debugging helpers Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Tech note: Dropbox login Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 34: more Backblaze and refactoring Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1521 d Day 33: more Backblaze Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1523 d Day 22: file properties Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 12: S3 upload and directory deletion Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 24: dialog refactoring Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 0: the idea Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 25: Google Drive support Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 30: better dialogs Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 1: tech stack, creating a project from scratch Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 2: displaying a list of files Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 3: Dropbox Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 4: S3, sorting, and remembering credentials Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 5: setting up a website Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 6: Dropbox fix, bug fixes and small improvements Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 7: context menu, file delete Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 8: more file deletion and file upload Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 9: Dropbox upload Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 10: S3 file deletion and UI tweaks Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 11: upload a file to the local filesystem Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 31: tweaking bookmarks list Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 13: local filesystem fixes Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 14: image preview, file rename Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 15: text preview Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 16: bookmarks Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 17: file download Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 18: improving S3 upload Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 19: analytics, context menu Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 20: filesystem refactoring Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 21: creating S3 directories and tracking modification times Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 29: optimizing file representation and S3 Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 23: file copy Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
JavaScript optimization story Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 32: optimizations and Backblaze Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 26: more Google Drive support Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 27: better Google Drive login and OneDrive support Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Day 28: OneDrive support, more file properties Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1524 d Programmer productivity: lines of code edition Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1532 d Filerion marketing Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1535 d Filerion tech stack Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on getting user feedback Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Using Roam Research for productivity Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on developer productivity Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
Thoughts on documentation Home / Diary of a solo dev building a web app
1542 d Upload files from your computer Home / Software / Filerion documentation
S3 and directories Home / Software / Filerion documentation
1850 d Pure Bash Bible Home
1851 d atomicfile - robustly writing to a file in Go Home / Software
siser Home / Software
Using Notion API Go client Home / Software
Vim Reference Home
2583 d Fuzzing a Markdown parser written in Go Home / Go Cookbook
2601 d Pigz Windows port Home / Software
2883 d Go Cookbook Home
3326 d Experience porting 4.5k loc of C to Go (Facebook's CSS flexbox implementation Yoga) Home / Go Cookbook
3349 d 3 ways to iterate in Go Home / Go Cookbook
3350 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
Embedding a build number in a Go executable Home / Go Cookbook
HTTPS for free in Go, with a little help from Let's Encrypt Home / Go Cookbook
Advanced command execution in Go with os/exec Home / Go Cookbook
3356 d Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories Home